First printed in Final Fantasy (2025)

Black Mage's Rod

Artifact — Equipment

Job select (When this Equipment enters, create a 1/1 colorless Hero creature token, then attach this to it.)
Equipped creature gets +1/+0, has "Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this creature deals 1 damage to each opponent," and is a Wizard in addition to its other types.
Equip 3 generic

In the last 30 days 3.1% of Pauper decks played it (23 of 739). Most played in Grixis Madness.

Staple

Pauper staples: main deck, 4% of decks (#132)
Black, Artifacts, Burn

Last 120 days of MTGO results and paper tournaments.

Legality

Constructed

Standard Legal
Pioneer Legal
Modern Legal
Legacy Legal
Vintage Legal
Pauper Legal
Future Standard Legal
Historic Legal
Timeless Legal
Alchemy 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 Not legal
Tiny Leaders Legal
Oathbreaker Legal
Brawl Legal
Standard Brawl 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 23 of 739 decks (3.1%).

Share of decks

4.2%

vs previous 30 days

Decks

4 main, 0 sideboard

Avg. copies

2.8

in the main deck

Win rate

54%

1 top 8 (challenges only)

Archetypes by metagame share

Archetype	Meta	Play it
Grixis Madness	12.3%	3%
Affinity	8.7%	17%
Tron	6.6%	6%
WBR (unclassified)	2.0%	33%
UBR (unclassified)	0.8%	17%

Played together with

Card	Together	Lift
Refurbished Familiar	100%	11.9
Nihil Spellbomb	100%	11.9
Vault of Whispers	100%	9.5
Reckoner's Bargain	75%	23.8
Myr Enforcer	75%	23.8
Mistvault Bridge	75%	17.8
Seat of the Synod	75%	14.3
Thoughtcast	75%	14.3
Drossforge Bridge	75%	11.9
Blood Fountain	75%	11.9

Best win rate

Deck	Record
Affinity Mamac42 in the300	6-2 75%
Affinity Kyle Matoba in the300	5-2 71%
Affinity Daniel Skoglund in From The Vault: Pauper 10 $1K	3-2 60%
Affinity LuffyDoChapeuDePalha in Pauper Challenge 32	4-3 57%
Affinity Thomas Riquoir in the300	4-4 50%
WBR Antoine LE DREFF in the300	4-4 50%
WBR jibeta in Pauper Challenge 16	3-3 50%
Grixis Madness Dylan Holly in Amsterdam Pauper League – 7° Leg – 2026	3-3 50%

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

Latest decks

Deck	Copies	Finish
Affinity LuffyDoChapeuDePalha, 28 Oct	3 main	#8 4-3
Affinity Erostratus, 28 Oct	2 main	5-0
WBR jibeta, 27 Oct	3 main	#12 3-3
Affinity LuffyDoChapeuDePalha, 27 Oct	3 main	#29 0-2
Tron Portal, 15 Oct	2 main	#8 1-2
Affinity Daniel Skoglund, 10 Oct	2 main	#24 3-2
Affinity Mamac42, 4 Oct	2 main	#32 6-2
Affinity Kyle Matoba, 4 Oct	1 main	#37 5-2

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