Melek, Izzet Paragon
Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.
What it does
Play with the top card of your library revealed.
You may cast instant and sorcery spells from the top of your library.
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell from your library, copy it. You may choose new targets for the copy.
Combos with Melek, Izzet Paragon
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.
- Ghostly Flicker Mystic Sanctuary Infinite
- Infinite colored mana
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite storm count
- Memory Lapse Storm-Kiln Artist Infinite
- Infinite artifact ETB
- Infinite artifact LTB
- Infinite magecraft triggers
- Infinite storm count
Combo data from Commander Spellbook, the community-maintained database of Magic combos. Mirrored nightly.
Rulings
11 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.
- 2013-04-15
Melek doesn’t affect the timing rules associated with when you can cast the card. If it’s a sorcery card, you can cast it only during your main phase when the stack is empty.
- 2013-04-15
You still pay all costs for that spell, including additional costs. You may also pay alternative costs, such as overload costs. Although you can’t pay additional costs for the copy that’s created, effects based on any additional costs that were paid for the original spell are copied as though those same costs were paid for the copy too. For example, if a player sacrifices a 3/3 creature to cast Fling, and you copy it, the copy of Fling will also deal 3 damage to its target.
- 2013-04-15
If the spell being copied 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.
- 2013-04-15
The top card of your library isn’t in your hand, so you can’t suspend it, cycle it, discard it, or activate any of its activated abilities.
- 2013-04-15
Instant and sorcery cards with miracle allow a player to cast a card immediately upon drawing it. If you cast a spell this way, you’re casting it from your hand, not your library. Melek’s ability won’t trigger.
- 2013-04-15
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).
- 2013-04-15
If the top card of your library changes while you’re casting a spell, playing a land, or activating an ability, the new top card won’t be revealed until you finish doing so.
- 2013-04-15
When the last ability resolves, it creates a copy of the spell. You control the copy. That copy is created on the stack, so it’s not “cast.” Abilities that trigger when a player casts a spell won’t trigger. The copy will then resolve like a normal spell, after players get a chance to cast spells and activate abilities.
- 2013-04-15
When playing with the top card of your library revealed, if an effect tells you to draw several cards, reveal each one before you draw it.
- 2013-04-15
If the spell being copied has an X whose value was determined as it was cast (like Debt to the Deathless has), the copy has the same value of X.
- 2013-04-15
Melek’s last ability will copy any instant or sorcery spell you cast from your library, not just one with targets.
Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.
In the 99
Every deck whose current list includes Melek, Izzet Paragon, whatever its commander.
Most played under
| Commander | Decks | Games | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stella Lee, Wild Card | 1 | 0 | — |
Colors it shows up in
- Izzet 1 deck
Melek, Izzet Paragon price history
The Commander Masters #345 printing, as Scryfall reports the TCGplayer market. Updated nightly. Click any version below to chart its price.
Every recorded price change
| Date | Non-foil | Foil |
|---|---|---|
| Nov 11, 2026 | $0.23 | $0.39 |
| Nov 10, 2026 | $0.22 | $0.39 |
| Nov 9, 2026 | $0.23 | $0.39 |
| Nov 8, 2026 | $0.24 | $0.39 |
| Nov 6, 2026 | $0.23 | $0.39 |
| Oct 27, 2026 | $0.24 | $0.38 |
| Oct 26, 2026 | $0.23 | $0.38 |
| Oct 24, 2026 | $0.25 | $0.38 |
| Oct 16, 2026 | $0.24 | $0.38 |
| Oct 11, 2026 | $0.25 | $0.39 |
| Oct 1, 2026 | $0.26 | $0.39 |
| Sep 28, 2026 | $0.25 | $0.39 |
A row is recorded only on nights the price moved, so each price held until the row above it.
Every version of Melek, Izzet Paragon
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.
- Normal
- $0.23
- Foil
- $0.39
- Normal
- $0.30
- Normal
- $0.23
- Normal
- $0.24
- Foil
- $0.84
Promo
Dragon's Maze Promos
- Foil
- $3.65
Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Melek, Izzet Paragon. 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.