First printed in Fifth Dawn (2004)

All 10 prints

Arena Anthology 2 (AA2) #6, 2025 (digital)
Wizards Play Network 2025 (PW25) #8, 2025
Time Spiral Remastered (TSR) #320, 2021
The List (PLST) #DDU-41, 2019
Duel Decks: Elves vs. Inventors (DDU) #41, 2018
Commander 2016 (C16) #102, 2016
Duel Decks: Mirrodin Pure vs. New Phyrexia (TD2) #9, 2011 (digital)
Scars of Mirrodin (SOM) #48, 2010
Duel Decks: Elspeth vs. Tezzeret (DDF) #49, 2010
Fifth Dawn (5DN) #39, 2004

Trinket Mage

Creature — Human Wizard

When this creature enters, you may search your library for an artifact card with mana value 1 or less, reveal that card, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

MTGO price: 0.002 TIX, the cheapest non-foil print (average sell price on GoatBots, 28 Oct 2026).

In the last 30 days 0.8% of Pauper decks played it (15 of 1908). Most played in Dimir Control. In the last 30 days 0.5% of Commander decks played it (31 of 6150). Most played in Rograkh, Son of Rohgahh + Thrasios, Triton Hero.

Legality

Constructed

Standard Not legal
Pioneer Not legal
Modern Legal
Legacy Legal
Vintage Legal
Pauper Legal
Future Standard Not legal
Historic Legal
Timeless Legal
Alchemy Not legal
Penny Dreadful Not legal
Premodern Not legal
Old School 93/94 Not legal

Singleton

Gladiator Legal

Commander formats

Commander Legal
Duel Commander Legal
Pauper Commander Legal
PreDH Legal
Tiny Leaders Legal
Oathbreaker Legal
Brawl Legal
Standard Brawl Not legal
Competitive Brawl Legal

In tournament decks of the last 30 days

Meta: share of the archetype in the format
Play it: decks of the archetype that play this card
Together: decks with this card that also play the other one (main deck)
Lift: how much more often than chance: 1 = unrelated, above 1 = played together on purpose

Pauper Other periods →

In 15 of 1908 decks (0.8%).

Share of decks

0.8%

▲ 0.4 vs previous 30 days

Weekly, last 90 days

Decks

15 main, 0 sideboard

Avg. copies

2.0

in the main deck

Win rate

61%

2 top 8 (challenges only)

Archetypes by metagame share

Archetype	Meta	Play it
Dimir Control	13.1%	4%
Affinity	9.4%	1%
Jund Wildfire	2.3%	2%
WUB (unclassified)	0.8%	7%
UB (unclassified)	0.7%	15%

Played together with

Card	Together	Lift
Seat of the Synod	100%	8.8
Baleful Strix	93%	4.8
Viridian Longbow	87%	110.2
Sewer-veillance Cam	80%	18.6
Campfire	80%	7.2
Cast Down	80%	3.4
Counterspell	80%	3.1
Lórien Revealed	80%	2.9
Grim Bauble	73%	25.9
Cut Down	73%	7.2

Best win rate

Deck	Record
Dimir Control Alice Lenting in Amsterdam Pauper League – 7° Leg – 2026	4-1 80%
Dimir Control Benoît Jaques in FirstQualifier	4-1 80%
UB Joris Abadie in FirstQualifier	4-1 80%
Dimir Control Bonneau Alexandre in the300	6-2 75%
Affinity 19LNC91 in Pauper Challenge 32	4-3 57%
UB Joris Abadie in the300	4-3 57%
Dimir Control Benoît Jaques in the300	4-4 50%
Affinity 19LNC91 in Pauper Challenge 32	3-3 50%

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

Latest decks

Deck	Copies	Finish
Affinity 19LNC91, 22 Oct	2 main	#8 4-3
Affinity 19LNC91, 5 Oct	2 main	#19 3-3
WUB Heisen01, 4 Oct	2 main	#20 3-3
Jund Wildfire Yannick Gratacos, 4 Oct	4 main	#16 1-2
Dimir Control Bonneau Alexandre, 4 Oct	2 main	#29 6-2
UB Joris Abadie, 4 Oct	1 main	#100 4-3
Dimir Control Benoît Jaques, 4 Oct	2 main	#122 4-4
Dimir Control tisseyre, 4 Oct	2 main	#151 3-4

Commander Other periods →

In 31 of 6150 decks (0.5%).

Share of decks

0.5%

▲ 0.2 vs previous 30 days