Conspiracy Theorist card art

Conspiracy Theorist

Creature — Human Shaman MV 2

Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.

What it does

Whenever this creature attacks, you may pay 1 and discard a card. If you do, draw a card.

Whenever you discard one or more nonland cards, you may exile one of them from your graveyard. If you do, you may cast it this turn.

Combos with Conspiracy Theorist

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.

  • Dream Halls Petals of Insight Aethertide Whale Infinite
    • Infinite energy counters
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite magecraft triggers
    • Infinite self-discard triggers
    • Infinite storm count
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Rionya, Fire Dancer Hanabi Blast Storm-Kiln Artist Infinite
    • Infinite artifact ETB
    • Infinite artifact LTB
    • Infinite damage
    • Infinite magecraft triggers
    • Infinite self-discard triggers
    • Infinite storm count
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Dream Halls Petals of Insight Aether Adept Infinite
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite magecraft triggers
    • Infinite self-discard triggers
    • Infinite storm count
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Dream Halls Petals of Insight Separatist Voidmage Infinite
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite magecraft triggers
    • Infinite self-discard triggers
    • Infinite storm count
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Dream Halls Petals of Insight Kiri-Onna Infinite
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite magecraft triggers
    • Infinite self-discard triggers
    • Infinite storm count
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Dream Halls Petals of Insight Aven Surveyor Infinite
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite magecraft triggers
    • Infinite self-discard triggers
    • Infinite storm count
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Dream Halls Petals of Insight Sun Ce, Young Conquerer Infinite
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite magecraft triggers
    • Infinite self-discard triggers
    • Infinite storm count
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Dream Halls Petals of Insight Voidwielder Infinite
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite magecraft triggers
    • Infinite self-discard triggers
    • Infinite storm count
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →

Showing the 8 shortest and most explosive. This card appears in more than these. Follow any of them through to Commander Spellbook to browse the rest.

Combo data from Commander Spellbook, the community-maintained database of Magic combos. Mirrored nightly.

Rulings

2 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.

  • 2021-04-16

    The card exiled by the second ability is exiled face up. Casting it follows the normal rules for casting that card. You must pay its costs, and you must follow all applicable timing rules. For example, if it's a creature card, you can cast it only during your main phase while the stack is empty. In most cases, if you exile a non-instant card during an opponent's turn, you won't be able to cast it that turn.

  • 2021-04-16

    While resolving Conspiracy Theorist's ability, you can't pay 1 and discard a card multiple times to draw more cards.

Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.

In the 99

Every deck whose current list includes Conspiracy Theorist, whatever its commander.

Decks running it 6
Games played 16
Win rate 25%
Confirmed on board 1 Games where a board photo caught it actually in play.

Most played under

Commander Decks Games Win rate
Fire Lord Zuko 2 16 25%
Quintorius, History Chaser 2 0 —

Colors it shows up in

  • Mardu 2 decks
  • Boros 2 decks

Conspiracy Theorist price history

The Secrets of Strixhaven Commander #240 printing, as Scryfall reports the TCGplayer market. Updated nightly.

Non-foil today$0.28▼ $0.06 (17.6%)
Low $0.26 · High $0.34Tracked since Sep 28, 2026
Every recorded price change
DateNon-foil
Nov 11, 2026$0.28
Nov 8, 2026$0.28
Nov 7, 2026$0.29
Nov 6, 2026$0.31
Nov 3, 2026$0.33
Nov 2, 2026$0.32
Oct 31, 2026$0.30
Oct 29, 2026$0.31
Oct 27, 2026$0.28
Oct 26, 2026$0.29
Oct 23, 2026$0.28
Oct 21, 2026$0.27
Oct 19, 2026$0.26
Oct 17, 2026$0.27
Oct 16, 2026$0.28
Oct 15, 2026$0.29
Oct 13, 2026$0.30
Oct 11, 2026$0.31
Oct 10, 2026$0.30
Oct 9, 2026$0.32
Oct 8, 2026$0.31
Oct 7, 2026$0.30
Oct 6, 2026$0.29
Oct 5, 2026$0.28
Oct 4, 2026$0.27
Oct 3, 2026$0.28
Oct 1, 2026$0.29
Sep 30, 2026$0.31
Sep 29, 2026$0.32
Sep 28, 2026$0.34

A row is recorded only on nights the price moved, so each price held until the row above it.

Every version of Conspiracy Theorist

5 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. Click a card's art to chart that version's price above.

Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Conspiracy Theorist. 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.