Malcolm, Alluring Scoundrel
Legendary Creature — Siren Pirate
Flash
Flying
Whenever Malcolm deals combat damage to a player, put a chorus counter on it. Draw a card, then discard a card. If there are four or more chorus counters on Malcolm, you may cast the discarded card without paying its mana cost.
2 / 1
- Set
- The Lost Caverns of Ixalan (LCI #63)
- Rarity
- Rare
- Mana value
- 2
- Released
- 2023-11-17
- Artist
- Fesbra
- EDHREC rank
- #1,555
- Colour identity
- Finishes
- Nonfoil, Foil
- Served from
- Local database
Commander bracket
Derived from card traits, not a ruling — bracket rules turn on how a deck intends to use a card. Bracket rules
EDHREC
Combos
Not part of any combo on Commander Spellbook.
Commander recommendations
Top synergy 50
Played far more in this commander's decks than elsewhere.
- Experimental Augury
- Contentious Plan
- Tezzeret's Gambit
- Thrummingbird
- Serum Snare
- Omniscience
- Ripples of Potential
- Flux Channeler
- Dreamtide Whale
- Steady Progress
- Time Stretch
- One with the Multiverse
- Karn's Bastion
- Aminatou's Augury
- Combat Research
- Slip Out the Back
- Reject Imperfection
- Aqueous Form
- Hullbreaker Horror
- Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur
- Fireshrieker
- Swiftfoot Boots
- Kozilek, the Great Distortion
- Artisan of Kozilek
- Stormtide Leviathan
- Nezahal, Primal Tide
- Jin-Gitaxias, Progress Tyrant
- Rise of the Eldrazi
- Expropriate
- Scourge of Fleets
- Ulamog, the Defiler
- Curiosity
- Enter the Infinite
- Staff of Compleation
- Strionic Resonator
- Rogue's Passage
- Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger
- Mnemonic Deluge
- The Key to the Vault
- Access Tunnel
- Skyship Plunderer
- Guildpact Informant
- The Ozolith
- Lightning Greaves
- Beacon of Tomorrows
- Emrakul, the World Anew
- Kozilek, Butcher of Truth
- Nexus of Fate
- Siren Stormtamer
- Temporal Mastery
Most included 50
Highest share of decks running them, distinctive or not.
- Island
- Sol Ring
- Experimental Augury
- Counterspell
- Contentious Plan
- Tezzeret's Gambit
- Thrummingbird
- Omniscience
- Serum Snare
- Mystic Sanctuary
- Swiftfoot Boots
- Arcane Signet
- An Offer You Can't Refuse
- Flux Channeler
- Reliquary Tower
- Hullbreaker Horror
- Ripples of Potential
- Sapphire Medallion
- Dreamtide Whale
- Negate
- Steady Progress
- Lightning Greaves
- Time Stretch
- Brainstorm
- Karn's Bastion
- Pongify
- Slip Out the Back
- One with the Multiverse
- Thought Vessel
- High Tide
- Arcane Denial
- Aminatou's Augury
- Rapid Hybridization
- Rogue's Passage
- Scourge of Fleets
- Combat Research
- Aqueous Form
- Nezahal, Primal Tide
- Reject Imperfection
- Stormtide Leviathan
- Jin-Gitaxias, Progress Tyrant
- Fireshrieker
- Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur
- Ponder
- Reality Shift
- Otawara, Soaring City
- Cyclonic Rift
- Swan Song
- Mana Drain
- Fierce Guardianship
Format legality
Rulings
- 2023-11-10
If Malcolm, Alluring Scoundrel isn't on the battlefield as its triggered ability resolves, you won't put a chorus counter on it, but you'll still draw a card and discard a card. You may still cast the discarded card without paying its mana cost if Malcolm had four or more chorus counters on it when it was last on the battlefield.
- 2023-11-10
If the spell has
in its mana cost, you must choose 0 as the value of X. - 2023-11-10
If you cast a card "without paying its mana cost", you can't choose to cast it for any alternative costs. You can, however, pay additional costs. If the card has any mandatory additional costs, you must pay those to cast the card.
- 2023-11-10
If you cast a spell using Malcolm, Alluring Scoundrel's last ability, you do so as part of the resolution of the ability. You can't wait to cast the spell later in the turn. Timing permissions based on the card's type are ignored.
- 2023-11-10
You may not play land cards discarded with Malcolm, Alluring Scoundrel's last ability.