Zuran Enchanter
Creature — Human Wizard
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: Target player discards a card. Activate only during your turn.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BU
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Ice Age
- Price
- $0.11
- EDHREC rank
- #30196
Zuran Enchanter pays two mana and a tap to discard a card and put a 1/1 Illusion token into play — a slow, lossy effect that costs you resources to generate a body smaller than what you spent. It sees play only in decks that weaponize the discard itself, and even there it's rarely the best enabler available.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Zuran Enchanter is a fringe Commander card — legal but narrow, showing up only in discard-matters or madness builds where the tap activation doubles as a trigger engine. In Pauper it's technically playable, but the format has more efficient discard outlets and token generators that don't ask you to spend two mana upfront and then lose a card every turn. Legacy and Vintage are non-starters; the effect isn't close to competitive. If Zuran Enchanter has a home, it's a Commander deck built around a commander like Sefris of the Hidden Ways or a dedicated madness shell where every discard counts twice.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.11 bulk tier
At $0.11, Zuran Enchanter is deep bulk — the kind of card you pull from a commons box, not one you track down. That price reflects its narrow application accurately, and there's no pressure scenario that moves bulk rares of this profile upward.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.