Meddling Mage
Meddling Mage is a blue-white card, legal in Premodern, shown in its old-frame Planeshift printing.
Price and printings: Cardmarket (€26.39) · TCGplayer ($37.76) · Scryfall
How often Meddling Mage is played
Meddling Mage is maindecked in 12 of 77 tournament decks in this archive (16%), averaging 4.0 copies; kept in 2 sideboards (3%); used by 4 of 21 tracked archetypes.
Counting only the 24 decks that can cast blue-white cards, 14 of them play it (58%).
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
- UWB Control: 5th Place at Premodern MTGO Challenge (4× mainboard)
- Mirari's Wake: 1st Place at Road to Mexican Nationals 2027 (4× sideboard)
- 5C Solution: 2nd Place at Peach Ball @ Giga-Bites (4× mainboard)
- Quiet Tribe: 8th Place at Nacional Premodern - Second Chance (4× mainboard)
- The Solution: 1st Place at Polish Premodern Nationals (4× mainboard)
- Bwg Control: 1st Place at LA Open 2026 (4× mainboard)
- 5C Wizards: 1st Place at Monthly Premodern Beagá - UGCardShop (4× mainboard)
- 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)
Spicy brews with Meddling Mage
- Battle of Wits (1×)
- 4c Blessing Control (4×)
