Expressive Iteration
Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC) #309 · Uncommon · Sorcery
Mana cost: {U}{R}
Look at the top three cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand, put one of them on the bottom of your library, and exile one of them. You may play the exiled card this turn.
Prismari students dance in the tension between passion and perfection.
Illustrated by Anastasia Ovchinnikova · Released April 24, 2026
Prices
- Nonfoil: $0.31 USD · €0.30 EUR
Nonfoil price since August 29, 2026: down $0.32 USD (50.8%) to $0.31 USD; low $0.26 USD, high $0.63 USD.
Printings
- Marvel Super Heroes Commander #183 (MSC) · Uncommon · 2026 · $0.30 USD
- Secrets of Strixhaven Mystical Archive #64 (SOA) · Rare · 2026 · $0.92 USD
- Secrets of Strixhaven Commander #309 (this printing) · Uncommon · 2026 · $0.31 USD
- Secret Lair Drop #2305 (SLD) · Rare · 2025 · $6.03 USD
- Secret Lair Drop #2060 (SLD) · Rare · 2025 · $2.85 USD
- Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander #288 (TDC) · Uncommon · 2025 · $0.30 USD
- Mystery Booster 2 #82 (MB2) · Uncommon · 2024 · $0.28 USD
- Special Guests #43 (SPG) · Mythic · 2024 · $2.30 USD
- Outlaws of Thunder Junction Commander #224 (OTC) · Uncommon · 2024 · $0.80 USD
- Secret Lair Promo #13 (SLP) · Rare · 2024 · $6.13 USD
- The Brothers' War Commander #125 (BRC) · Uncommon · 2022 · $1.13 USD
- Magic Online Promos #90174 (PRM) · Uncommon · 2021
- Strixhaven: School of Mages #186 (STX) · Uncommon · 2021 · $0.40 USD
- Strixhaven: School of Mages #379 (STX) · Uncommon · 2021 · $1.24 USD
Legality
- Standard: Not legal
- Alchemy: Not legal
- Pioneer: Banned
- Historic: Legal
- Modern: Legal
- Brawl: Legal
- Legacy: Banned
- Timeless: Legal
- Vintage: Legal
- Pauper: Not legal
- Commander: Legal
- Penny: Not legal
- Oathbreaker: Legal
- Duel: Legal
Rulings
- 2026-03-20 · wotc — If you choose to play the exiled card this turn, you must still pay all costs and follow all timing restrictions required by that card. If it's a land, you can't play it unless you have a land play available.
- 2026-03-20 · wotc — If you don't play the exiled card, it remains exiled. It won't be available to be played on future turns.
- 2026-03-20 · wotc — If there are fewer than three cards in your library, follow the instructions in the order given for any cards that are there. For example, if there are two cards in your library, you'll put one of them into your hand and one of them on the bottom of your library. You won't have the option to exile either of them.
Played in these commander decks
- Rootha, Mastering the Moment · in 74% of 47 decks
- Shiko and Narset, Unified · in 59% of 44 decks
- Stella Lee, Wild Card · in 53% of 45 decks
- Vivi Ornitier · in 41% of 46 decks
- Niv-Mizzet, Parun · in 31% of 42 decks
- Ghyrson Starn, Kelermorph · in 29% of 49 decks
- Storm, Force of Nature · in 19% of 48 decks