
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
of 835,753 commander decks, 0.0%.
most of those decks cost $954 to $13,403.
runs 4.4 to 8.7 across those decks.
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