First printed in Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate (2022)
All 3 prints
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Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate (CLB) #274, 2022
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Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate (CLB) #362, 2022
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Battle for Baldur's Gate Promos (PCLB) #274s, 2022
Elminster 
Legendary Planeswalker — Elminster
Whenever you scry, the next instant or sorcery spell you cast this turn costs 
less to cast, where X is the number of cards looked at while scrying this way.
+2: Draw a card, then scry 2.
−3: Exile the top card of your library. Create a number of 1/1 blue Faerie Dragon creature tokens with flying equal to that card's mana value.
Elminster can be your commander.
MTGO price: 1.49 TIX, the cheapest non-foil print (average sell price on GoatBots, 28 Oct 2026).
In the last 30 days 1.3% of Duel Commander decks played it (1 of 80). Most played in WU (unclassified).
Combos
1 combo from Commander Spellbook.
Legality
Constructed
- Standard Not legal
- Pioneer Not legal
- Modern Not legal
- Legacy Legal
- Vintage Legal
- Pauper Not legal
- Future Standard Not legal
- Historic Not legal
- Timeless Not legal
- Alchemy Not legal
- Penny Dreadful Not legal
- Premodern Not legal
- Old School 93/94 Not legal
Singleton
- Gladiator Not legal
Commander formats
- Commander Legal
- Duel Commander Legal
- Pauper Commander Not legal
- PreDH Not legal
- Tiny Leaders Not legal
- Oathbreaker Legal
- Brawl Not legal
- Standard Brawl Not legal
- Competitive Brawl Not legal