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◇ Catalog #137

Word of Command

cei·#137·rare·nonfoil

Illus. Jesper Myrfors

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Dec 1993

33 yr ago

Value

$50.55+$2 (+4.2%)

30 days high $51 · low $47

NM$49.5

LP—

MP—

HP—

DMG—

$46–$52modeled

30 days ago
today

90-dayhigh $54low $36range 50.5%n 53

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TCGplayer eBay sold Cardmarket EU Star City

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Played in EDH

EDHrec rank #18,874 · Fringe play

Variants

Nonfoil$50

Gameplay

Instant

Look at target opponent's hand and choose a card from it. You control that player until Word of Command finishes resolving. The player plays that card if able. While doing so, the player can activate mana abilities only if they're from lands that player controls and only if mana they produce is spent to activate other mana abilities of lands the player controls and/or to play that card. If the chosen card is cast as a spell, you control the player while that spell is resolving.

Legalities

tlrlegal

duellegal

brawlnot legal

pennynot legal

PreDH

Rulings · 12

2016-07-13wotc

While controlling another player, you can see all cards in the game that player can see. This includes cards in that player's hand, face-down cards that player controls, and any cards in that player's library the player may look at.

2016-07-13wotc

Controlling a player doesn't allow you to look at that player's sideboard. If an effect instructs that player to choose a card from outside the game, you can't have that player choose any card.

2011-01-01wotc

Word of Command can't be used to force a player to play a card that isn't in their hand.

2011-01-01

Context

Last observed on Scryfall 2 months ago at $49.55. Over the trailing 90 days the price moved between $35.56 and $53.52 across 53 observations. Cross-checked across TCGplayer, eBay sold, Cardmarket EU, and Star City.

This printing is one of 2 catalogued treatments from CEI — the lineup includes Nonfoil alongside the standard finish. Across our catalog the Rarix library tracks every variant in the same family so collectors can compare price, scarcity and demand inside a single lineage.

Card #137 of *Intl. Collectors' Edition*, the set that shipped alongside the December 1993 Intl. Collectors' Edition release.

Card type: Instant, color identity black, printed at rare. Rares occupy the bottom-of-pack rare slot in standard boosters. Mana cost: {B}{B} (2 converted).

Legal in Legacy, Vintage, and Commander. This printing is on Wizards of the Coast's Reserved List — Wizards has committed never to reprint cards on that list, which underwrites a structural scarcity floor on every surviving copy.

EDHrec ranks this card #18,874 in Commander, putting it in the fringe-play tier of the format's playable pool.

Illustrated by Jesper Myrfors. Rarix catalogs 502 other cards credited to this artist.