First printed in Strixhaven: School of Mages (2021)

All 13 prints

Archmage Emeritus

Creature — Human Wizard

Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, draw a card.

MTGO price: 0.006 TIX, the cheapest non-foil print (average sell price on GoatBots, 28 Oct 2026).

In the last 30 days 0.5% of Commander decks played it (30 of 6150). Most played in Vivi Ornitier.

In Limited on MTG Arena

Win rates in Arena drafts and sealed, retrieved from 17Lands (CC BY 4.0).

Win rates of Archmage Emeritus in Limited
Set	GIH WR	vs set	IWD	Games
Secrets of Strixhaven (SOS), Premier Draft	48.9%	-6.5	-4.4	883

GIH WR: win rate of the games in which the card was in the opening hand or drawn
vs set: points above or below the average win rate of all decks in the set
IWD: improvement when drawn: GIH WR minus the win rate when the card stayed in the library
Games: games in which the card was seen

8 combos from Commander Spellbook, the most popular first.

In tournament decks of the last 30 days

In 30 of 6150 decks (0.5%).

Share of decks

0.5%

▼ 0.3 vs previous 30 days

Weekly, last 90 days

Decks

30 main, 0 sideboard

Avg. copies

1.0

in the main deck

Win rate

31%

9 top 8 (challenges only)

Archetype	Meta	Play it
Vivi Ornitier	2.2%	4%
Krark, the Thumbless + Sakashima of a Thousand Faces	0.3%	56%
Krark, the Thumbless + Thrasios, Triton Hero	0.3%	25%
Y'shtola, Night's Blessed	0.3%	6%
Krark, the Thumbless + Silas Renn, Seeker Adept	0.1%	33%
Orvar, the All-Form	0.1%	25%
Ghyrson Starn, Kelermorph	0.0%	50%
Iroh, Grand Lotus	0.0%	50%

Deck	Record
Krark, the Thumbless + Thrasios, Triton Hero Pickle_poltergeist (Ethan) in Perfect Storm Comics & Games - Tabernacle 10K	5-1 83%
Krark, the Thumbless + Sakashima of a Thousand Faces Andrew Kim in FOIL Gaea's Cradle cEDH 6k	2-3 40%
Vivi Ornitier Samuel Maglish in Gem State CEDH \| Ad Naus for a Cause!	1-4 20%
Vivi Ornitier david castillo in Take the Crown 04	1-4 20%
Rootha, Mastering the Moment Tan Tin Kian (TK) in Quantum Nexus' Highlander 10K	1-4 20%
Namor the Sub-Mariner Bryan Chong in Quantum Nexus' Highlander 10K	0-5 0%

Challenges only: MTGO publishes only the 5-0 league decks.

Deck	Copies	Finish
Vivi Ornitier Landon Fisher, 25 Oct	1 main	#20 0-4
Krark, the Thumbless + Sakashima of a Thousand Faces Nyles Schneider, 25 Oct	1 main	#26 1-3
Krark, the Thumbless + Silas Renn, Seeker Adept Competitive Mario Party Player, 24 Oct	1 main	#25 0-2
Krark, the Thumbless + Sakashima of a Thousand Faces Ethan Toast, 24 Oct	1 main	#37 0-3
Krark, the Thumbless + Silas Renn, Seeker Adept Jacob Graham [LUX], 24 Oct	1 main	#2 2-2
Vivi Ornitier Austin Straus, 24 Oct	1 main	#3 2-1
Krark, the Thumbless + Sakashima of a Thousand Faces Joseph Kulas-Nunez, 24 Oct	1 main	#13 1-2
Orvar, the All-Form Sawyer Green, 24 Oct	1 main	#7 0-2

No recent decks in: Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Duel Commander.