Dualcaster Mage
Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.
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What it does
Flash
When this creature enters, copy target instant or sorcery spell. You may choose new targets for the copy.
Combos with Dualcaster Mage
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.
- Twinflame Infinite
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature tokens with haste
- Infinite magecraft triggers
- Ghostly Flicker Infinite
- Infinite artifact ETB
- Infinite artifact LTB
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite magecraft triggers
- Infinite landfall triggers
- Infinite mana lands you control that enter the battlefield untapped can produce
- Infinite blinking of artifacts
- Infinite blinking of lands
- Infinite blinking
- Baral's Expertise 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
- Necromantic Selection Infinite
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite magecraft triggers
- Release to the Wind Infinite
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite storm count
- Infinite magecraft triggers
- Starfall Invocation Infinite
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite magecraft triggers
- Infinite card draw for target opponent
- Infinite draw triggers for target opponent
Showing the 6 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
7 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.
- 2016-06-08
Dualcaster Mage's triggered ability can target (and copy) any instant or sorcery spell, not just one with targets. It doesn't matter who controls it.
- 2016-06-08
If the copy says that it affects "you," it affects the controller of the copy, not the controller of the original spell. Similarly, if the copy says that it affects an "opponent," it affects an opponent of the copy's controller, not an opponent of the original spell's controller.
- 2016-06-08
If the spell is modal (that is, it says "Choose one —" or the like), the copy will have the same mode. You can't choose a different one.
- 2016-06-08
As Dualcaster Mage's triggered ability resolves, it creates a copy of a spell on the stack. The copy isn't cast, so abilities that trigger when a player casts a spell won't trigger.
- 2016-06-08
The copy will have the same targets as the spell it's copying unless you choose new ones. You may change any number of the targets, including all of them or none of them. If, for one of the targets, you can't choose a new legal target, then it remains unchanged (even if the current target is illegal).
- 2016-06-08
You can't choose to pay any additional costs for the copy. However, effects based on any additional or alternative costs paid for the targeted spell are copied as though those same costs were paid for the copy.
- 2016-06-08
If the spell has an X whose value was determined as it was cast (like Earthquake does), the copy has the same value of X.
Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.
In the 99
Every deck whose current list includes Dualcaster Mage, whatever its commander.
Most played under
| Commander | Decks | Games | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Deadpool, Trading Card | 1 | 0 | — |
| Florian, Voldaren Scion | 1 | 0 | — |
| Jori En, Ruin Diver | 1 | 0 | — |
| Klothys, God of Destiny | 1 | 0 | — |
| Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied | 1 | 0 | — |
| Niv-Mizzet, Visionary | 1 | 0 | — |
| Zada, Hedron Grinder | 1 | 0 | — |
Colors it shows up in
- Rakdos 3 decks
- Izzet 2 decks
- Mono-Red 1 deck
- Gruul 1 deck
Dualcaster Mage price history
The Commander 2021 #165 printing, as Scryfall reports the TCGplayer market. Updated nightly. Click any version below to chart its price.
Every recorded price change
| Date | Non-foil |
|---|---|
| Oct 27, 2026 | $3.98 |
| Oct 26, 2026 | $3.98 |
| Oct 24, 2026 | $3.99 |
| Oct 23, 2026 | $4.00 |
| Oct 22, 2026 | $4.05 |
| Oct 20, 2026 | $4.12 |
| Oct 19, 2026 | $4.16 |
| Oct 17, 2026 | $4.21 |
| Oct 16, 2026 | $4.20 |
| Oct 15, 2026 | $4.15 |
| Oct 13, 2026 | $4.10 |
| Oct 12, 2026 | $4.06 |
| Oct 11, 2026 | $4.11 |
| Oct 10, 2026 | $4.21 |
| Oct 8, 2026 | $4.23 |
| Oct 7, 2026 | $4.24 |
| Oct 6, 2026 | $4.27 |
| Oct 1, 2026 | $4.36 |
| Sep 29, 2026 | $4.30 |
| Sep 28, 2026 | $4.35 |
A row is recorded only on nights the price moved, so each price held until the row above it.
Every version of Dualcaster Mage
11 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.
Inverted
Special Guests
- Normal
- $6.96
- Foil
- $16.77
- Normal
- $3.98
- Normal
- $3.63
- Normal
- $3.49
- Foil
- $14.63
- Normal
- $4.36
- Normal
- $4.14
- Normal
- $4.27
Archenemy: Nicol Bolas
- Normal
- $4.59
- Normal
- $4.56
- Foil
- $18.00
Promo
Judge Gift Cards 2015
- Foil
- $46.54
- Normal
- $4.61
Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Dualcaster Mage. 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.
