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Magus of the Balance
Oracle Text
{4}{W}, {T}, Sacrifice this creature: Each player chooses a number of lands they control equal to the number of lands controlled by the player who controls the fewest, then sacrifices the rest. Players discard cards and sacrifice creatures the same way.
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Magus of the Balance is a classic control-pressure tool in Magic: The Gathering, turning a humble 2/2 body into a one-sided-looking reset button when you build around the symmetry. In Commander especially, it best supports a control or stax-style game plan that can break parity by staying ahead on mana, cards, or board development, then cashing itself in to drag everyone down to the weakest player’s level. Because it sacrifices itself as part of the activation, you want recursion or copy effects like Sun Titan, Emeria Shepherd, or a sacrifice-reanimation shell to reuse the effect. It pairs well with ramp, token producers, and mana rocks, since those help you recover faster after the wipe, and it punishes greedy mana bases hard. The lore feel is pure arbiter-wizard: a mage enforcing equilibrium by stripping excess from every side.
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Character Background
Magus of the Balance is a classic control-pressure tool in Magic: The Gathering, turning a humble 2/2 body into a one-sided-looking reset button when you build around the symmetry. In Commander especially, it best supports a control or stax-style game plan that can break parity by staying ahead on mana, cards, or board development, then cashing itself in to drag everyone down to the weakest player’s level. Because it sacrifices itself as part of the activation, you want recursion or copy effects like Sun Titan, Emeria Shepherd, or a sacrifice-reanimation shell to reuse the effect. It pairs well with ramp, token producers, and mana rocks, since those help you recover faster after the wipe, and it punishes greedy mana bases hard. The lore feel is pure arbiter-wizard: a mage enforcing equilibrium by stripping excess from every side.
Generated using gpt-5.4-mini · Updated at 2026-08-21 20:10:45 UTC