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Xande, Dark Mage
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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
#15,375
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 0.35
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 %+41.9 %
  2. Enter the Enigma 45 %+41.4 %
  3. Fandaniel, Telophoroi Ascian 42 %+39.8 %
  4. Dreams of Laguna 40 %+38.3 %
  5. Haughty Djinn 38 %+37.2 %
  6. Resentful Revelation 37 %+36.1 %
  7. Archmage Emeritus 37 %+32.4 %
  8. Ripples of Undeath 36 %+32.3 %
  9. Fact or Fiction 41 %+32.0 %
  10. Opt 42 %+31.2 %
  11. Thought Scour 37 %+30.3 %
  12. Frantic Search 49 %+29.8 %
  13. Aqueous Form 37 %+29.7 %
  14. Overkill 32 %+29.7 %
  15. Slip Through Space 31 %+29.5 %
  16. Preordain 40 %+29.3 %
  17. Archmage of Runes 31 %+29.2 %
  18. Mandate of Abaddon 29 %+28.2 %
  19. Otherworldly Gaze 33 %+27.6 %
  20. Swiftfoot Boots 51 %+26.5 %
  21. Windfall 39 %+25.8 %
  22. Circle of Power 26 %+25.8 %
  23. Transpose 26 %+25.4 %
  24. Vohar, Vodalian Desecrator 29 %+25.2 %
  25. Rogue's Passage 51 %+24.8 %
  26. Talrand, Sky Summoner 26 %+23.4 %
  27. Lier, Disciple of the Drowned 24 %+22.4 %
  28. Artful Dodge 23 %+22.3 %
  29. Rona, Sheoldred's Faithful 22 %+21.0 %
  30. Singularity Rupture 32 %+19.5 %
  31. Propaganda 38 %+19.5 %
  32. Wonder 26 %+19.1 %
  33. Treno, Dark City 22 %+19.1 %
  34. Wayfarer's Bauble 32 %+19.1 %
  35. Baral, Chief of Compliance 21 %+18.9 %
  36. Pym Particles 19 %+18.6 %
  37. Stillness in Motion 19 %+18.3 %
  38. Withering Torment 34 %+18.3 %
  39. Forbidden Alchemy 19 %+17.9 %
  40. Tainted Indulgence 20 %+17.8 %
  41. Search for Azcanta 20 %+17.4 %
  42. Ponder 33 %+17.1 %
  43. Cornered by Black Mages 18 %+17.0 %
  44. Emet-Selch, Unsundered 18 %+17.0 %
  45. Octavia, Living Thesis 17 %+16.8 %
  46. Shadow Rift 17 %+16.4 %
  47. Evil Reawakened 17 %+16.0 %
  48. Undercity Sewers 37 %+15.8 %
  49. Glimpse the Unthinkable 21 %+15.8 %
  50. Brotherhood Regalia 18 %+15.4 %

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 81 %-6.8 %
  4. Arcane Signet 79 %-4.6 %
  5. Sol Ring 75 %-12.6 %
  6. Sunken Hollow 57 %-8.3 %
  7. Talisman of Dominance 56 %-2.3 %
  8. Drowned Catacomb 55 %+0.1 %
  9. Consider 55 %+41.9 %
  10. Rogue's Passage 51 %+24.8 %
  11. Counterspell 51 %-4.6 %
  12. Dimir Signet 51 %-6.7 %
  13. Swiftfoot Boots 51 %+26.5 %
  14. Frantic Search 49 %+29.8 %
  15. Enter the Enigma 45 %+41.4 %
  16. Watery Grave 45 %-4.1 %
  17. Opt 42 %+31.2 %
  18. Dark Ritual 42 %+5.2 %
  19. An Offer You Can't Refuse 42 %+10.0 %
  20. Mind Stone 42 %+13.9 %
  21. Fandaniel, Telophoroi Ascian 42 %+39.8 %
  22. Choked Estuary 41 %-5.9 %
  23. Fact or Fiction 41 %+32.0 %
  24. Dreams of Laguna 40 %+38.3 %
  25. Shipwreck Marsh 40 %-0.8 %
  26. Preordain 40 %+29.3 %
  27. Windfall 39 %+25.8 %
  28. Brainstorm 39 %+9.5 %
  29. Feed the Swarm 39 %+3.8 %
  30. Haughty Djinn 38 %+37.2 %
  31. Propaganda 38 %+19.5 %
  32. Aqueous Form 37 %+29.7 %
  33. Underground River 37 %-3.9 %
  34. Resentful Revelation 37 %+36.1 %
  35. Undercity Sewers 37 %+15.8 %
  36. Thought Scour 37 %+30.3 %
  37. Archmage Emeritus 37 %+32.4 %
  38. Ripples of Undeath 36 %+32.3 %
  39. Negate 35 %+2.8 %
  40. Toxic Deluge 35 %+9.8 %
  41. Morphic Pool 35 %-1.4 %
  42. Bojuka Bog 35 %-3.8 %
  43. Withering Torment 34 %+18.3 %
  44. Tainted Isle 34 %-10.5 %
  45. Otherworldly Gaze 33 %+27.6 %
  46. Ponder 33 %+17.1 %
  47. Singularity Rupture 32 %+19.5 %
  48. Overkill 32 %+29.7 %
  49. Wayfarer's Bauble 32 %+19.1 %
  50. Polluted Delta 31 %-1.3 %

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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