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Mordenkainen

Mordenkainen is a blue human Planeswalker, introduced in August 2021 along with the Adventures in the Forgotten Realms card set.

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Mordenkainen.png
Full Name Mordenkainen
Affinities Blue
Origin set Adventures in the Forgotten Realms Adventures in the Forgotten Realms
Cost 295 Mana Crystals
Stats (max level)
Health 117
Deck limits Creatures 7  ·  Spells 7  ·  Supports 5
Mana bonuses Icon W.png +4 · Icon U.png+5 · Icon B.png +3 · Icon R.png -1 · Icon G.png -2
Leveling cost 79,920 Mana Runes
Planeswalkers   (Infobox · Data)

He has higher than average health and average deck limits leaning towards creatures and spells. He has quite good mana gains in Blue, descending a point at a time through White and Black.

All of Mordenkainen's abilities involve Rolling a D20Roll a D20 for a variety of possible outcomes. He can create a buff-destroying creature TokenToken creature which is stronger with more different cards in hand. He can CopyCopy spells and give them mana, and also draw cards and give them mana, including his ultimate. His ultimate, which draws a full hand of different cards with half mana, is very good for pulling off combos. He has a Passive Ability, Mordenkainen's Lucubration, which enables him to Discard-Draw every time he casts a Blue card.

Contents

Stats

Mordenkainen - level 60
Mana bonus Deck limits Health Leveling cost
  +4   +5   +3   -1   -2   0    7    7    5 117 79,920  
All level details 1-60            Click to
Level

cost

Mana bonus Deck limits Health Abilities
                  1 2 3
1-5

440 

+1 +1 +1 -2 -2 0 4 4 2 32      
5 4 2
35
+2 +1 +1 -2 -2 0
38
6-10

1865 

 
41
5 5 2
44
 
11-15

4190 

47
+2 +2 +1 -2 -2 0
50
5 5 3
53
16-20

7380 

 
+2 +2 +2 -2 -2 0
56
 
21-25

11405 

59
6 5 3
62
+3 +2 +2 -2 -2 0
65
26-30

16250 

 
68
6 6 3
71
 
31-35

21890 

74
+4 +2 +2 -2 -2 0
77
6 6 4
36-40

28325 

 
80
+4 +4 +2 -2 -2 0
83
 
41-45

35540 

86
7 6 4
89
+4 +4 +3 -2 -2 0
93
46-50

43520 

 
97
7 7 4
101
 
51-55

55720 

105
+4 +4 +3 -1 -2 0
7 7 5
109
56-60

79920 

 
113
+4 +5 +3 -1 -2 0
117
 

Abilities

1: Involuntary Wizardry
Ability Level PW level   Effect
  6-19 6 Draw up to 1 card. Pick one of the first 3 cards in your hand. Then: Roll a D20 : 1 - 10: Exile that card. 11 - 20: It gains 6 mana.
  20-35 6 Draw up to 2 cards. Pick one of the first 3 cards in your hand. Then: Roll a D20 : 1 - 10: Exile that card. 11 - 20: It gains 6 mana.
  36-49 6 Draw up to 2 cards. Pick one of the first 3 cards in your hand. Then: Roll a D20 : 1 - 10: Exile that card. 11 - 20: It gains half of its mana.
  50-60 6 Draw up to 2 cards. Pick one of the first 4 cards in your hand. Then: Roll a D20 : 1 - 10: Exile that card. 11 - 19: It gains half of its mana. 20: It gains full mana.
2: Faithful Hound
Ability Level PW level   Effect
  10-25 12 Create a Faithful Hound creature Token  [Blue Dog Illusion Creature 1/1 with "When this creature attacks: Remove all Buffs from the first opposing Buffed creature. When this creature enters the battlefield: It gets +2/+2 for each card with a different name in your hand."].
  26-39 12 Create a Faithful Hound creature Token  [Blue Dog Illusion Creature 1/1 with "When this creature attacks: Remove all Buffs from the first opposing Buffed creature. When this creature enters the battlefield: It gets +2/+2 for each card with a different name in your hand."]. Then: Roll a D20 . 1 - 10: Your Illusion creatures gain Flying  until end of turn. 11 - 20: Your Illusion creatures gain Flying .
  40-55 12 Create a Faithful Hound creature Token  [Blue Dog Illusion Creature 1/1 with "When this creature attacks: Remove all Buffs from the first opposing Buffed creature. When this creature enters the battlefield: It gets +2/+2 for each card with a different name in your hand."]. Then: Roll a D20 . 1 - 10: Your Illusion creatures gain Flying . 11 - 20: Your Illusion creatures gain Flying  and Unblockable .
  56-60 12 Create a Faithful Hound creature Token  [Blue Dog Illusion Creature 1/1 with "When this creature attacks: Remove all Buffs from the first opposing Buffed creature. When this creature enters the battlefield: It gets +2/+2 for each card with a different name in your hand."]. Then: Roll a D20 . 1 - 10: Your Illusion creatures gain Flying . 11 - 18: Your Illusion creatures gain Flying  and Unblockable . 19-20: Your illusion creatures gain Flying , Unblockable , and Hexproof .
3: Penultimate Cogitation
Ability Level PW level   Effect
  16-29 18 Create a Mordenkainen's Penultimate Cogitation Token  [5 shield with Resilient  and "When you cast a non-copy spell card for the first time each turn: Roll a D20 . 1 - 10: Copy  that card. It gains half of its mana. 11 - 18: Copy  that card. It gains full mana. 19-20: Copy  that card. Then, each spell card in your hand gains full mana."]. Then: Exile your hand and draw the first 3 different cards from your library.
  30-45 18 Create a Mordenkainen's Penultimate Cogitation Token  [5 shield with Resilient  and "When you cast a non-copy spell card for the first time each turn: Roll a D20 . 1 - 10: Copy  that card. It gains half of its mana. 11 - 18: Copy  that card. It gains full mana. 19-20: Copy  that card. Then, each spell card in your hand gains full mana."]. Then: Exile your hand and draw the first 4 different cards from your library.
  46-59 18 Create a Mordenkainen's Penultimate Cogitation Token  [5 shield with Resilient  and "When you cast a non-copy spell card for the first time each turn: Roll a D20 . 1 - 10: Copy  that card. It gains half of its mana. 11 - 18: Copy  that card. It gains full mana. 19-20: Copy  that card. Then, each spell card in your hand gains full mana."]. Then: Exile your hand and draw the first 5 different cards from your library.
  60 18 Create a Mordenkainen's Penultimate Cogitation Token  [5 shield with Resilient  and "When you cast a non-copy spell card for the first time each turn: Roll a D20 . 1 - 10: Copy  that card. It gains half of its mana. 11 - 18: Copy  that card. It gains full mana. 19-20: Copy  that card. Then, each spell card in your hand gains full mana."]. Then: Exile your hand and draw the first 6 different cards from your library. Those cards gain half of their mana.

Mordenkainen's Lucubration

Alignment Blue: You may discard the last card in your hand. If you do, draw a card.

Story

"Mordenkainen's paranoia made him so careful that most of the powerful spells found in books were of his creation. Those that face Mordenkainen might say he's just a paranoid old man—they don't say that twice."

Starting Deck

Card name Type Cost Color Rarity Set
Dragon Turtle Missing card data
Feywild Trickster Missing card data
Scion of Stygia Missing card data
Contact Other Plane Missing card data 
Sigiled Starfish   (3/5) 8       ORI 
Evolving Wilds   3       ORI 
Calculated Dismissal   7       ORI 
Negate   3       ORI 
Claustrophobia   (1) 9       ORI
Fifty Feet of Rope Missing card data