Card
Strago and Relm
Mana cost {2}{R}
Legendary Creature — Human Wizard 1/3
Sketch and Lore — {2}{R}, {T}: Target opponent exiles cards from the top of their library until they exile an instant, sorcery, or creature card. You may cast that card without paying its mana cost. If you cast a creature spell this way, it gains haste and "At the beginning of the end step, sacrifice this creature." Activate only as a sorcery.
No bracket restriction: playable from bracket 1. 3 official rulings.
- Commander
- Legal
- Printing
- Rare · FIC · #59
- Cheapest printing
- €0.23
- EDHREC salt
- 0.44
- Color identity
- Red
Bracket
- B1 Exhibition — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B2 Core — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B3 Upgraded — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B4 Optimized — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
- B5 cEDH — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
Why
- No Game Changer, mass land denial, extra turn, tutor or two-card combo
How Lotus Vault estimates a bracket
Bracket: Lotus Vault analysis, with Commander Spellbook flags
Combos
No known combos for this card.
Combos: Commander Spellbook
Rulings
- 2025-06-06 · Wizards of the Coast
If you cast a spell "without paying its mana cost," you can't choose to cast it for any alternative costs. You can, however, pay additional costs. If the spell has any mandatory additional costs, those must be paid to cast the spell. - 2025-06-06 · Wizards of the Coast
You cast the card while Strago and Relm's ability is resolving and still on the stack. You can't wait to play it later in the turn. Timing restrictions based on its types are ignored. - 2025-06-06 · Wizards of the Coast
If a spell has {X} in its mana cost, you must choose 0 as the value of X when playing it without paying its mana cost.
Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast