Melancholic Poet
- Mana cost
- {1}{B}
- Type
- Creature — Elf Bard
- Power / toughness
- 2 / 2
- Set
- Secrets of Strixhaven #90 (common)
- Price
- $0.20 USD
Repartee — Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell that targets a creature, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
Melancholic Poet has 1 printing, first in Secrets of Strixhaven (2026). EDHREC ranks it #14,819 among Commander cards. It appears most in Abigale, Poet Laureate // Heroic Stanza decks (1,030 on EDHREC). It has 2 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: legal
- standard: legal
- brawl: legal
Commanders that run Melancholic Poet most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Abigale, Poet Laureate // Heroic Stanza: 1,030 decks
- Killian, Ink Duelist: 252 decks
- Toshiro Umezawa: 100 decks
- Shay Cormac: 85 decks
- Fandaniel, Telophoroi Ascian: 64 decks
- Papalymo Totolymo: 53 decks
- Nita, Forum Conciliator: 48 decks
- Kaervek, the Punisher: 36 decks
Often played with Melancholic Poet
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : A repartee ability resolves before the spell that caused it to trigger. It resolves even if that spell is countered or otherwise leaves the stack.
- : It doesn't matter if the creature or creatures targeted by the spell that caused the repartee ability to trigger leave the battlefield or stop being creatures before that spell resolves. As long as that spell targeted one or more creatures when it was cast, the repartee ability will trigger and later resolve.