Sakashima's Protege
Sakashima's Protege: Creature - Shapeshifter, Commander Legends. MTG card printings, market prices, rulings, and format legality on Mana Grove.
- Mana cost
- {4}{U}{U}
- Mana value
- 6
- Type
- Creature - Shapeshifter
- Colour identity
- Blue (U)
- Power / toughness
- 3/1
- Rarity
- Rare
- Set
- Commander Legends (CMR)
- Released
- 2020-11-20
- Collector number
- 90
- Artist
- Tyler Walpole
- Commander rank
- 5,941 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)
- Keywords
- Flash, Cascade
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About Sakashima's Protege
Sakashima's Protege is a Magic: The Gathering card, a rare blue creature from Commander Legends (CMR), a draft-focused set released in November 2020. It is collector number 90 in that set, with art by Tyler Walpole. It costs {4}{U}{U} (four generic and two blue mana) to cast, for a mana value of 6. It is a 3/1 creature. Its colour identity is blue. It is legal in Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander and Oathbreaker. It has been printed in 2 sets. The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $0.46 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-02).
Card text
Flash
Cascade (When you cast this spell, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card that costs less. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom in a random order.)
You may have this creature enter as a copy of any permanent that entered this turn.
Market price
Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $0.46 (as of 2026-11-02).
The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.
Format legality
Legality of Sakashima's Protege by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.
| Legacy | Legal |
|---|---|
| Vintage | Legal |
| Commander | Legal |
| Duel Commander | Legal |
| Oathbreaker | Legal |
Other printings of Sakashima's Protege
Sakashima's Protege has been printed in 2 sets. The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.
| Printing | Rarity | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Magic Online Promos (PRM) #86038 | Rare | 2020 |
| Commander Legends (CMR) #641 | Rare | 2020 |
Official rulings
The 8 most recent official rulings for Sakashima's Protege, newest first.
- Cascade triggers when you cast the spell, meaning that it resolves before that spell. If you end up casting the exiled card, it will go on the stack above the spell with cascade.
- A spell's mana value is determined only by its mana cost. Ignore any alternative costs, additional costs, cost increases, or cost reductions.
- You exile the cards face up. All players will be able to see them.
- The mana value of a split card is determined by the combined mana cost of its two halves. If cascade allows you to cast a split card, you may cast either half but not both halves.
- If you cast a card "without paying its mana cost," you can't choose to cast it for any alternative costs. You can, however, pay additional costs. If the card has any mandatory additional costs, you must pay those to cast the card.
- If a spell with cascade is countered, the cascade ability will still resolve normally.
- Due to a 2021 rules change to cascade, not only do you stop exiling cards if you exile a nonland card with lesser mana value than the spell with cascade, but the resulting spell you cast must also have lesser mana value. Previously, in cases where a card's mana value differed from the resulting spell, such as with some modal double-faced cards or cards with an Adventure, you could cast a spell with a higher mana value than the exiled card.
- When the cascade ability resolves, you must exile cards. The only optional part of the ability is whether or not you cast the last card exiled.
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