Word of Command

Word of Command price & price history

What Word of Command costs today, what it cost before, and how commander players actually run it. Prices update daily.

Card details

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.

Type
Instant
Mana cost
{B}{B}
Rarity
rare
Latest printing
Unlimited Edition
First printed
1993-08-05
Commander legality
Legal

Word of Command price today

$386

€205

30 days 0.0%

as of 2026-09-12

All-time high
$448
All-time low
$312
1-year average
$387
Data since
2025-07-24

Word of Command has traded between $312 and $448, averaging $387 over the past year. It appears in 276 of the commander decks we track.

Word of Command in the deckdiver.app commander deck database

Decks running it
276

of 835,753 commander decks, 0.0%.

Median deck price
$3,931

most of those decks cost $954 to $13,403.

Median power level
6.9

runs 4.4 to 8.7 across those decks.

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Real decks that run Word of Command

Pulled from the decks we index, with the stats we track for every one of them. The picks rotate weekly.

Budget build
$994
deck price
4.2
power
5.1
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Typical build
$4,025
deck price
8.6
power
5.4
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High-end build
$11,740
deck price
8.6
power
10.0
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