Spectral Arcanist
Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.
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What it does
Flying
When this creature enters, you may cast an instant or sorcery spell with mana value less than or equal to the number of Spirits you control from a graveyard without paying its mana cost. If that spell would be put into a graveyard, exile it instead.
Combos with Spectral Arcanist
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.
- Corpse Dance Ashnod's Altar Skirge Familiar Infinite
- Infinite black mana
- Infinite colorless mana
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite magecraft triggers
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Infinite self-discard triggers
- Infinite storm count
- Corpse Dance Ashnod's Altar Mind Over Matter Infinite
- Infinite untap of permanents you control
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite magecraft triggers
- Infinite mana permanents you control can produce
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Infinite self-discard triggers
- Infinite storm count
- Corpse Dance Ashnod's Altar Pitiless Plunderer Infinite
- Infinite artifact ETB
- Infinite artifact LTB
- Infinite artifact sacrifice triggers
- Infinite artifact tokens
- Infinite colored mana
- Infinite colorless mana
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite magecraft triggers
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Infinite storm count
- Infinite Treasure tokens
- Hanabi Blast Deadeye Navigator Storm-Kiln Artist Panharmonicon Infinite
- Infinite artifact ETB
- Infinite artifact LTB
- Infinite damage
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite magecraft triggers
- Infinite self-discard triggers
- Infinite storm count
- Hanabi Blast Deadeye Navigator Storm-Kiln Artist Goldspan Dragon Infinite
- Infinite artifact ETB
- Infinite artifact LTB
- Infinite damage
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite magecraft triggers
- Infinite self-discard triggers
- Infinite storm count
- Hanabi Blast Deadeye Navigator Storm-Kiln Artist Naban, Dean of Iteration Infinite
- Infinite artifact ETB
- Infinite artifact LTB
- Infinite damage
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite magecraft triggers
- Infinite self-discard triggers
- Infinite storm count
- Hanabi Blast Deadeye Navigator Storm-Kiln Artist Harmonic Prodigy Infinite
- Infinite artifact ETB
- Infinite artifact LTB
- Infinite artifact sacrifice triggers
- Infinite artifact tokens
- Infinite blinking
- Infinite colored mana
- Infinite damage
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite magecraft triggers
- Infinite self-discard triggers
- Infinite storm count
- Infinite Treasure tokens
- Hanabi Blast Deadeye Navigator Storm-Kiln Artist Xorn Infinite
- Infinite artifact ETB
- Infinite artifact LTB
- Infinite damage
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite magecraft triggers
- Infinite self-discard triggers
- Infinite storm count
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
3 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.
- 2021-11-19
If you choose to cast the spell, you must do so as Spectral Arcanist's ability is resolving. You can't wait and cast it later.
- 2021-11-19
If you cast a spell with X in its mana cost this way, you must choose 0 as the value for X.
- 2021-11-19
If you cast a spell without paying its mana cost, you may choose to pay additional costs (such as kicker) but not alternative costs (such as flashback).
Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.
In the 99
Every deck whose current list includes Spectral Arcanist, whatever its commander.
Most played under
| Commander | Decks | Games | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Millicent, Restless Revenant | 1 | 0 | — |
Colors it shows up in
- Azorius 1 deck
Spectral Arcanist price history
The Crimson Vow Commander #15 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 13, 2026 | $0.32 |
| Oct 10, 2026 | $0.32 |
| Oct 7, 2026 | $0.33 |
| Oct 6, 2026 | $0.31 |
| Oct 2, 2026 | $0.32 |
| Sep 28, 2026 | $0.33 |
A row is recorded only on nights the price moved, so each price held until the row above it.
Every version of Spectral Arcanist
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 publishes none for some of them. Click a card's art to chart that version's price above.
- Normal
- $0.32
Extended Art
- Normal
- $0.30
Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Spectral Arcanist. 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.
