Spectacle Mage
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
Strixhaven: School of MagesSTX · #235
- Card type
- Creature — Bird Shaman
- Rarity
- Common
- Indicative price
- 0.12 € · ★ 0.16 € · 0.12 $ · ★ 0.23 $
- Mana value
- 3
- Power
- 2
- Toughness
- 2
- Colour
- Blue Red
Card text
Flying Instant and sorcery spells you cast with mana value 5 or greater cost less to cast.
Format legality
- BrawlLegal
- CommanderLegal
- CompetitivebrawlLegal
- DuelLegal
- GladiatorLegal
- HistoricLegal
- LegacyLegal
- ModernLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- PauperLegal
- PaupercommanderLegal
- PioneerLegal
- TimelessLegal
- VintageLegal
Legalities follow the imported catalogue; check format rules before a tournament.
Data imported on 2026-10-06 (UTC).
Indicative Scryfall prices, updated daily. ★: foil; ★ E: etched foil. EUR and USD represent different markets.
Printing information
- Illustrator
- Caroline Gariba
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 2021-04-23
Flavour text
"It would be a crime to withhold my light from the world."
Rulings
If there is an in the spell’s mana cost, use the chosen value for X to determine its mana value. For example, if you cast a sorcery with mana cost and choose 4 for X, its mana value is 5.
Spectacle Mage’s second ability can’t reduce the colored mana requirements in spells you cast.
Spectacle Mage’s second ability only looks at the mana value of a spell, not the cost you’re paying for it. For example, if you control two Spectacle Mages and cast a sorcery with mana cost , the cost will be reduced to .