Master of Predicaments
- Mana cost
- {3}{U}{U}
- Type
- Creature — Sphinx
- Power / toughness
- 4 / 4
- Set
- The List #M15-67 (rare)
- Price
- $0.30 USD
Flying
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, choose a card in your hand. That player guesses whether the card's mana value is greater than 4. If the player guessed wrong, you may cast the card without paying its mana cost.
Master of Predicaments has 2 printings, first in Magic 2015 (2014). EDHREC ranks it #9,397 among Commander cards. It appears most in The Ur-Sphinx decks (2,938 on EDHREC). 1 public deck on TCG runs it. It has 7 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: not legal
Public decks that run Master of Predicaments
- Odds and Ends - Secret Lair Commander, led by Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign
Commanders that run Master of Predicaments most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- The Ur-Sphinx: 2,938 decks
- The Celestial Toymaker: 2,735 decks
- Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign: 2,517 decks
- Unesh, Criosphinx Sovereign: 1,331 decks
- Atris, Oracle of Half-Truths: 196 decks
- Isperia the Inscrutable: 165 decks
- Medomai the Ageless: 112 decks
- Atemsis, All-Seeing: 107 decks
Often played with Master of Predicaments
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : If the card has {X} in its mana cost, X is 0.
- : To choose a card in your hand, clearly separate it from the rest of your hand without revealing it.
- : If you cast a card "without paying its mana cost," you can't pay any alternative costs. Notably, you can't cast a card with bestow as an Aura this way. You can, however, pay additional costs, such as kicker costs. If the card has any mandatory additional costs, you must pay those.
- : Although you may choose a land card in your hand, you won't be able to play it even if the player guessed wrong.
- : You cast the card in your hand as part of the resolution of the triggered ability. Timing restrictions based on the card's type (such as creature or sorcery) are ignored. Other restrictions, such as "Cast [this card] only during combat," are not.
- : If you don't cast the card, either because the player guessed right or because you choose not to cast it, you don't have to reveal it. Your opponent won't know the reason you didn't cast the card.
- : If the card is a split card, its mana value is determined by the combined mana cost of its two halves. If the player guesses wrong and you cast a split card this way, you may cast either half (or both halves if the card has fuse), no matter what its mana value is.