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Xande, Dark Mage
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USD foil $7.27
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MTGO 0.04 tix

Xande, Dark Mage

{2}{U}{B}

Legendary Creature — Human Wizard

Menace (This creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)

Xande gets +1/+1 for each noncreature, nonland card in your graveyard.

"But your struggle was all for naught. Don't you see how close the darkness has drawn?"

3 / 3

Menace
Set
Final Fantasy (FIN #516)
Rarity
Rare
Mana value
4
Released
2025-06-13
Artist
Joseph Weston
EDHREC rank
#15,339
Colour identity
{B}{U}
Finishes
Nonfoil, Foil
Served from
Local database

Commander bracket

1 +
Fits any bracket
No Game Changer, land denial, extra turns or two-card combos.

Derived from card traits, not a ruling — bracket rules turn on how a deck intends to use a card. Bracket rules

EDHREC

Salt Score 0.12
How much players resent seeing this card. The scale tops out around 3.1.
Can be your commander

Combos

Not part of any combo on Commander Spellbook.

Commander recommendations

Top synergy 50

Played far more in this commander's decks than elsewhere.

  1. Consider 55 %+41.8 %
  2. Enter the Enigma 45 %+41.1 %
  3. Fandaniel, Telophoroi Ascian 42 %+40.2 %
  4. Dreams of Laguna 41 %+39.9 %
  5. Haughty Djinn 37 %+36.3 %
  6. Resentful Revelation 35 %+34.2 %
  7. Archmage Emeritus 37 %+32.9 %
  8. Fact or Fiction 41 %+31.7 %
  9. Ripples of Undeath 36 %+31.6 %
  10. Overkill 34 %+31.1 %
  11. Opt 42 %+31.1 %
  12. Thought Scour 36 %+29.9 %
  13. Frantic Search 49 %+29.5 %
  14. Slip Through Space 30 %+29.2 %
  15. Aqueous Form 36 %+29.0 %
  16. Preordain 39 %+28.8 %
  17. Archmage of Runes 30 %+28.5 %
  18. Swiftfoot Boots 53 %+28.3 %
  19. Otherworldly Gaze 34 %+27.8 %
  20. Mandate of Abaddon 28 %+27.8 %
  21. Windfall 39 %+25.8 %
  22. Rogue's Passage 52 %+25.5 %
  23. Circle of Power 26 %+25.3 %
  24. Vohar, Vodalian Desecrator 29 %+24.9 %
  25. Transpose 24 %+23.8 %
  26. Artful Dodge 24 %+22.8 %
  27. Talrand, Sky Summoner 25 %+22.7 %
  28. Lier, Disciple of the Drowned 23 %+21.9 %
  29. Rona, Sheoldred's Faithful 21 %+20.1 %
  30. Wonder 26 %+20.0 %
  31. Treno, Dark City 22 %+19.8 %
  32. Wayfarer's Bauble 32 %+19.1 %
  33. Baral, Chief of Compliance 21 %+18.8 %
  34. Singularity Rupture 32 %+18.8 %
  35. Propaganda 36 %+18.2 %
  36. Stillness in Motion 19 %+18.1 %
  37. Forbidden Alchemy 20 %+17.9 %
  38. Ponder 34 %+17.4 %
  39. Pym Particles 18 %+17.3 %
  40. Evil Reawakened 18 %+17.1 %
  41. Tainted Indulgence 19 %+17.0 %
  42. Search for Azcanta 19 %+16.7 %
  43. Shadow Rift 18 %+16.6 %
  44. Octavia, Living Thesis 17 %+16.5 %
  45. Cornered by Black Mages 17 %+16.4 %
  46. Theorix Charm 19 %+16.1 %
  47. Emet-Selch, Unsundered 17 %+16.1 %
  48. Shinra Reinforcements 16 %+16.0 %
  49. Withering Torment 32 %+15.6 %
  50. Relm's Sketching 17 %+15.6 %

Most included 50

Highest share of decks running them, distinctive or not.

  1. Island 96 %-0.6 %
  2. Swamp 96 %-0.7 %
  3. Command Tower 79 %-8.2 %
  4. Arcane Signet 79 %-5.0 %
  5. Sol Ring 75 %-12.1 %
  6. Sunken Hollow 57 %-8.4 %
  7. Drowned Catacomb 55 %-0.9 %
  8. Consider 55 %+41.8 %
  9. Talisman of Dominance 55 %-3.4 %
  10. Swiftfoot Boots 53 %+28.3 %
  11. Rogue's Passage 52 %+25.5 %
  12. Dimir Signet 51 %-6.7 %
  13. Counterspell 51 %-5.1 %
  14. Frantic Search 49 %+29.5 %
  15. Watery Grave 45 %-4.6 %
  16. Enter the Enigma 45 %+41.1 %
  17. Dark Ritual 44 %+6.2 %
  18. Opt 42 %+31.1 %
  19. Fandaniel, Telophoroi Ascian 42 %+40.2 %
  20. Dreams of Laguna 41 %+39.9 %
  21. An Offer You Can't Refuse 41 %+8.7 %
  22. Fact or Fiction 41 %+31.7 %
  23. Mind Stone 41 %+13.1 %
  24. Choked Estuary 40 %-7.1 %
  25. Shipwreck Marsh 40 %-1.3 %
  26. Windfall 39 %+25.8 %
  27. Preordain 39 %+28.8 %
  28. Brainstorm 39 %+9.6 %
  29. Feed the Swarm 38 %+3.3 %
  30. Archmage Emeritus 37 %+32.9 %
  31. Haughty Djinn 37 %+36.3 %
  32. Underground River 37 %-4.4 %
  33. Aqueous Form 36 %+29.0 %
  34. Thought Scour 36 %+29.9 %
  35. Propaganda 36 %+18.2 %
  36. Undercity Sewers 36 %+15.0 %
  37. Negate 36 %+3.4 %
  38. Ripples of Undeath 36 %+31.6 %
  39. Toxic Deluge 35 %+9.9 %
  40. Resentful Revelation 35 %+34.2 %
  41. Morphic Pool 34 %-1.8 %
  42. Bojuka Bog 34 %-4.6 %
  43. Otherworldly Gaze 34 %+27.8 %
  44. Ponder 34 %+17.4 %
  45. Overkill 34 %+31.1 %
  46. Lightning Greaves 32 %+4.9 %
  47. Tainted Isle 32 %-12.0 %
  48. Singularity Rupture 32 %+18.8 %
  49. Withering Torment 32 %+15.6 %
  50. Wayfarer's Bauble 32 %+19.1 %

Format legality

Standard Legal
Pioneer Legal
Modern Legal
Legacy Legal
Vintage Legal
Pauper Not legal
Commander Legal
Oathbreaker Legal
Duel Commander Legal
Brawl Legal
Standard Brawl Legal
Historic Legal
Timeless Legal
Alchemy Legal
Penny Not legal
Premodern Not legal
PreDH Not legal
Pauper EDH Not legal
Old School Not legal
Future Legal
Gladiator Legal
All printingsScryfall ↗Edhrec ↗
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