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Notion Thief

Creature — Human Rogue MV 4

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What it does

Flash

If an opponent would draw a card except the first one they draw in each of their draw steps, instead that player skips that draw and you draw a card.

Combos with Notion Thief

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.

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

Rulings

3 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.

  • 2018-03-16

    If an opponent is instructed to draw a card then discard a card, and Notion Thief causes you to draw a card instead, that opponent still discards a card. The same is true of any other actions that opponent is instructed to do.

  • 2018-03-16

    If two or more players each control a Notion Thief and a player would draw a card other than the first one in their draw step, that player chooses one of the applicable Notion Thief effects to apply. Then the player whose Notion Thief's effect was chosen repeats this process among the remaining Notion Thief effects, and so on, until there are no more possible such effects to apply. Each effect can be applied to the card draw only once this way.

  • 2018-03-16

    The above procedure means that if each player in a two-player game controls a Notion Thief and one would draw a card, it really will be that player who draws a card.

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

In the 99

Every deck whose current list includes Notion Thief, whatever its commander.

Decks running it 5
Games played 1
Win rate — Fewer than 5 completed games, which is not enough to publish a rate yet.
Confirmed on board 0 Games where a board photo caught it actually in play.

Most played under

Commander Decks Games Win rate
Atraxa, Grand Unifier 1 1 —
Sauron, Lord of the Rings 1 0 —
Vren, the Relentless 1 0 —

Colors it shows up in

  • Dimir 1 deck
  • Grixis 1 deck
  • Four-Color (no Red) 1 deck

Notion Thief price history

The Zendikar Rising Commander #96 printing, as Scryfall reports the TCGplayer market. Updated nightly.

Non-foil today$1.45▲ $0.06 (4.3%)
Low $1.39 · High $1.45Tracked since Sep 28, 2026
Every recorded price change
DateNon-foil
Oct 6, 2026$1.45
Oct 5, 2026$1.45
Oct 2, 2026$1.42
Oct 1, 2026$1.41
Sep 30, 2026$1.42
Sep 29, 2026$1.40
Sep 28, 2026$1.39

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

Every version of Notion Thief

6 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 Notion Thief. 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.