Elite Spellbinder
- Mana cost
- {2}{W}
- Type
- Creature — Human Cleric
- Power / toughness
- 3 / 1
- Set
- Magic Online Promos #89992 (rare)
Flying
When this creature enters, look at target opponent's hand. You may exile a nonland card from it. For as long as that card remains exiled, its owner may play it. A spell cast this way costs {2} more to cast.
Elite Spellbinder has 6 printings, first in Strixhaven: School of Mages (2021). EDHREC ranks it #15,918 among Commander cards. It appears most in Phelia, Exuberant Shepherd decks (375 on EDHREC). It has 2 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: legal
Commanders that run Elite Spellbinder most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Phelia, Exuberant Shepherd: 375 decks
- Isperia the Inscrutable: 141 decks
- Thalia, the Survivor: 5 decks
Often played with Elite Spellbinder
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : Playing the exiled card follows all normal timing restrictions.
- : If the exiled card is a modal double-faced card and its back face is a land, its owner may play it as a land. (Note that if the front face is also a land, you couldn’t have exiled it to begin with.)