Baral's Expertise
Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.
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What it does
Return up to three target artifacts and/or creatures to their owners' hands.
You may cast a spell with mana value 4 or less from your hand without paying its mana cost.
Combos with Baral's Expertise
The lines this card is part of, what it needs alongside it, and what the cards do together. An infinite result is the one that moves a deck's bracket.
- Dualcaster Mage Infinite
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite magecraft triggers
- Infinite storm count
- Return any number of artifacts and/or creatures to their owners' hands
- Rootha, Mercurial Artist Mana Echoes Infinite
- Infinite colorless mana
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite magecraft triggers
- Infinite storm count
- Dockside Extortionist Nivix Guildmage Infinite
- Infinite artifact ETB
- Infinite artifact LTB
- Infinite artifact sacrifice triggers
- Infinite artifact tokens
- Infinite colored mana
- Infinite draw triggers
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite looting
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite magecraft triggers
- Infinite self-discard triggers
- Infinite storm count
- Infinite Treasure tokens
- Dockside Extortionist Lithoform Engine Vedalken Orrery Infinite
- Infinite artifact ETB
- Infinite artifact LTB
- Infinite artifact sacrifice triggers
- Infinite artifact tokens
- Infinite colored mana
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite magecraft triggers
- Infinite storm count
- Infinite Treasure tokens
- Dockside Extortionist Lithoform Engine Aluren Infinite
- Infinite artifact ETB
- Infinite artifact LTB
- Infinite artifact sacrifice triggers
- Infinite artifact tokens
- Infinite colored mana
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite magecraft triggers
- Infinite storm count
- Infinite Treasure tokens
- Dockside Extortionist Lithoform Engine Leyline of Anticipation Infinite
- Infinite artifact ETB
- Infinite artifact LTB
- Infinite artifact sacrifice triggers
- Infinite artifact tokens
- Infinite colored mana
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite magecraft triggers
- Infinite storm count
- Infinite Treasure tokens
Combo data from Commander Spellbook, the community-maintained database of Magic combos. Mirrored nightly.
Rulings
9 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.
- 2017-02-09
If you cast a card "without paying its mana cost," you can't choose to cast it for any alternative costs, such as emerge costs. You can, however, pay additional costs. If the card has any mandatory additional costs, such as that of Cathartic Reunion, you must pay those to cast the card.
- 2017-02-09
If the card has X in its mana cost, you must choose 0 as the value of X when casting it without paying its mana cost.
- 2017-02-09
If the Expertise spell you cast has any targets, and those targets become illegal before the spell resolves, the spell doesn't resolve and none of its effects happen. You won't get to cast a free spell.
- 2017-02-09
A card's mana value is determined solely by the mana symbols printed in its upper right corner. The mana value is the total amount of mana in that cost, regardless of color. For example, a card with mana cost 1 has mana value 3. Ignore any alternative costs, additional costs, cost increases, or cost reductions that could apply to it. A card with no mana cost has a mana value of 0.
- 2017-02-09
Any triggered abilities that trigger while performing the Expertise spell's first effect won't be put onto the stack until after you're done casting your free spell. They're put onto the stack at the same time as any abilities that triggered while casting that spell regardless of the order in which those abilities triggered.
- 2017-02-09
The card that you cast may be an artifact or creature that was returned to your hand by this spell.
- 2017-02-09
While you're casting your free spell, the Expertise spell is still on the stack. It will be put into its owner's graveyard after the free spell is cast. The free spell can't target the Expertise card in your graveyard. It can target the Expertise spell on the stack, but the Expertise spell will become an illegal target before the free spell resolves.
- 2017-02-09
Effects that allow you to "cast" a card don't allow you to play a land card.
- 2017-04-18
The mana value of a split card is determined by the combined mana cost of its two halves. If an expertise spell allows you to cast a split card, you may cast either half or, if that split card has fuse, both halves.
Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.
In the 99
Every deck whose current list includes Baral's Expertise, whatever its commander.
Every version of Baral's Expertise
4 printings, newest first. Prices are the market figures Scryfall publishes, refreshed nightly. A printing with no figure shows a dash rather than a zero, because Scryfall publishes none for some of them.
Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander
- Normal
- $0.27
Outlaws of Thunder Junction Commander
- Normal
- $0.22
Aether Revolt
- Normal
- $0.37
- Foil
- $0.61
Promo
Aether Revolt Promos
- Foil
- $3.20
Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Baral's Expertise. It runs a name search across every version, which covers the printings TCGplayer publishes no direct link to.
Aggregated from Commander games tracked in TurnZero HQ. Every figure counts decks and games only. No individual deck list, player or playgroup is identified. Win rates are withheld below 5 completed games, where the sample is too small to mean anything.
