Mesmeric Orb
Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.
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What it does
Whenever a permanent becomes untapped, that permanent's controller mills a card.
Combos with Mesmeric Orb
Lines this card is part of — what it needs alongside it, and what the two of them do. An infinite result is the one that moves a deck's bracket.
- Ith, High Arcanist Infinite
- Infinite self-mill
- Seeker of Skybreak Infinite
- Infinite self-mill
- Aphetto Alchemist Infinite
- Infinite self-mill
- Basalt Monolith Infinite
- Infinite self-mill
- Tidewater Minion Infinite
- Infinite self-mill
- Horseshoe Crab Multani's Harmony Infinite
- Infinite self-mill
- Araumi of the Dead Tide Vizier of Tumbling Sands Infinite
- Infinite self-mill
- Araumi of the Dead Tide Kelpie Guide Infinite
- Infinite self-mill
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
One official ruling, as Wizards published it.
- 2020-08-07
If permanents become untapped during the untap step, Mesmeric Orb's ability will trigger that many times. However, since no player gets priority during the untap step, those abilities wait to be put on the stack until the upkeep starts. At that time, any "beginning of upkeep" triggers will also trigger. Those abilities and Mesmeric Orb's triggers are put onto the stack at the same time.
Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.
In the 99
Every deck whose current list includes Mesmeric Orb, whatever its commander.
Most played under
| Commander | Decks | Games | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Noctis, Prince of Lucis | 1 | 0 | — |
| Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls | 1 | 0 | — |
Colors it shows up in
- Rakdos 1 deck
- Esper 1 deck
Every version of Mesmeric Orb
7 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 genuinely publishes none for some of them.

Inverted
Secret Lair Drop
- Normal
- $19.66
- Foil
- $18.64

The Brothers' War Retro Artifacts
- Normal
- $17.98
- Foil
- $22.56

The Brothers' War Retro Artifacts
- Normal
- $17.36
- Foil
- $23.86

The Brothers' War Retro Artifacts
- Foil
- $441.93

- Normal
- $17.65
- Foil
- $24.01

Salvat 2005
- Normal
- $19.99

Mirrodin
- Normal
- $17.90
- Foil
- $35.08
Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Mesmeric Orb — a name search across every version, for 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.