Spectacle Mage
- Mana cost
- {1}{U}{R}
- Type
- Creature — Bird Shaman
- Power / toughness
- 2 / 2
- Set
- Strixhaven: School of Mages #235 (common)
- Price
- $0.11 USD
Flying
Instant and sorcery spells you cast with mana value 5 or greater cost {1} less to cast.
Spectacle Mage has 1 printing, first in Strixhaven: School of Mages (2021). EDHREC ranks it #21,323 among Commander cards. It appears most in Zaffai, Thunder Conductor decks (184 on EDHREC). It has 3 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: legal
Commanders that run Spectacle Mage most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Zaffai, Thunder Conductor: 184 decks
- Rootha, Mercurial Artist: 50 decks
- Uvilda, Dean of Perfection // Nassari, Dean of Expression: 30 decks
Often played with Spectacle Mage
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : Spectacle Mage’s second ability can’t reduce the colored mana requirements in spells you cast.
- : Spectacle Mage’s second ability only looks at the mana value of a spell, not the cost you’re paying for it. For example, if you control two Spectacle Mages and cast a sorcery with mana cost {4}{U}, the cost will be reduced to {2}{U}.
- : If there is an {X} in the spell’s mana cost, use the chosen value for X to determine its mana value. For example, if you cast a sorcery with mana cost {X}{U} and choose 4 for X, its mana value is 5.