Shantotto, Tactician Magician
Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.
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What it does
Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, Shantotto gets +X/+0 until end of turn, where X is the amount of mana spent to cast that spell. If X is 4 or more, draw a card.
Combos with Shantotto, Tactician Magician
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.
- Mind Over Matter Empowered Autogenerator Clockspinning Infinite
- Infinite charge counters on a permanent
- Infinite colored mana
- Infinite self-discard triggers
- Infinite draw triggers
- Infinite looting
- Near-infinite magecraft triggers
- Near-infinite colored mana
- Near-infinite charge counters on a permanent
- Near-infinite proliferate
- Near-infinite storm count
- Near-infinitely powerful creature until end of turn
Combo data from Commander Spellbook, the community-maintained database of Magic combos. Mirrored nightly.
Rulings
One official ruling, as Wizards published it.
- 2025-06-06
Shantotto's ability resolves before the spell that caused it to trigger. It resolves even if that spell is countered or otherwise leaves the stack.
Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.
In the 99
Every deck whose current list includes Shantotto, Tactician Magician, whatever its commander.
Most played under
| Commander | Decks | Games | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Fantastic Four | 1 | 1 | — |
Colors it shows up in
- Four-Color (no Black) 1 deck
Every version of Shantotto, Tactician Magician
2 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.
- Normal
- $0.15
- Foil
- $0.29
Extended Art
- Normal
- $1.33
- Foil
- $10.45
Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Shantotto, Tactician Magician — 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.