Meddling Mage
Meddling Mage is a blue-white card, legal in Premodern, shown in its old-frame Planeshift printing.
Price and printings: Cardmarket (€22.66) · TCGplayer ($34) · Scryfall
How often Meddling Mage is played
Meddling Mage is maindecked in 6 of 39 tournament decks in this archive (15%), averaging 4.0 copies; kept in 1 sideboard (3%); used by 4 of 17 tracked archetypes.
Counting only the 14 decks that can cast blue-white cards, 7 of them play it (50%).
See how it compares on the Premodern staples list.
Premodern archetypes that play Meddling Mage
- The Solution: Pre-emptive, permanent disruption on a 2/2 body: naming correctly is the deck's skill-testing decision, and unlike a counterspell it works while you are tapped out.
- Dromar Control: A permanent lock on the opponent's single most important card that cannot be Duressed away and works while you are tapped out, stapled to a 2/2 clock.
Tournament decks with Meddling Mage
- Dromar Control: 1st Place at Monthly Premodern Beagá (4× mainboard)
- Super Wayfarer: 1st Place at Premodern Online Monthly (4× mainboard)
- Dromar Solution: 3rd Place at Side Event Final Pudraiser (4× mainboard)
- UW Control: 1st Place at Moxforge League May 2026 (4× sideboard)
- 5 Color White Weenie: 4th Place at Grand Pre Louisville (4× mainboard)
- 5C Wizards Orb: 1st Place at Monthly Premodern Beagá – UGCardShop (4× mainboard)
- The Solution: 2nd Place at Monthly Italiano Maggio (4× mainboard)
