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Mage Tower Referee SOS 0249 · common

Mage Tower Referee · {2} · Artifact Creature — Construct · Whenever you cast a multicolored spell, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. · Power / toughness: 2/1 · Incapable of choosing a favorite and invulnerable to the influence of magic, it is an ideal and obnoxiously accurate referee.

Mage Tower Referee · {2} · Artifact Creature — Construct · Whenever you cast a multicolored spell, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. · Power / toughness: 2/1 · Incapable of choosing a favorite and invulnerable to the influence of magic, it is an ideal and obnoxiously accurate referee.

Price
from $0.111 printing
Win rate
54.6% GIH 18,315 instances · Premier Draft
Apr 21–Jun 2, 2026 · 17Lands

Game-in-hand win rate, all deck colors. 9,995 wins in 18,315 card-in-hand instances.

16,997 distinct games · 6,190 distinct drafts · games recorded Apr 21–Jun 2, 2026.

17Lands file dated Jun 5, 2026 · 100-instance minimum · 17Lands public data ↗

Draft data

54.6%when drawn (GIH)

−0.8 pp vs 55.4% average · 18,315 instances

Premier Draft · Apr 21–Jun 2, 2026 · average from 582,914 games

#198 of 320 nonland cards by win rate · last seen around pick 7.4 on average (211,446 packs).

7 of 12 colorless cards · 2 of 5 colorless common cards.

Taken at pick10.628,166 picks
Makes the deck26.7%28,166 picks with known usage
When played54.4%40,665.4 matchesBenched 55.1%
105,074.6 matches
When drawn54.6%18,315 instances

Pick and maindeck observations: Apr 21–Jun 2, 2026. Played/benched cells use matches when available; the drawn cell uses game instances.

○ Opening hand 54.7% · 7,760 instances
● Drawn later 54.5% · 10,555 instances

In hand 54.6% · 18,315 instances
Unseen in deck 54.8% · 23,790 instances
−0.3 percentage points when drawn

Compared with colorless cards

Win rate when drawn54.6%18,315 instances7 of 12
Opening hand54.7%7,760 instances4 of 12
Drawn later54.5%10,555 instances9 of 12
In the deck54.7%42,276 instances4 of 12
Without seeing it54.8%23,790 instances2 of 12
Improvement when drawn−0.3 pp18,315 instances / 23,790 instances11 of 12
When benched55.1%105,074.6 matches7 of 12
Makes the deck26.7%28,166 picks with known usage10 of 12
Pick (last seen)7.4211,446 packs10 of 12
Taken at10.628,166 picks10 of 12

Ranks require 100 observations for that metric; comparisons are descriptive, not a pick order. Pick ranks put earlier picks first.

Best decks for it

no-splash decks only · card-level in-hand rates · 100 minimum

Silverquill Repartee Aggro WB56.2%4,432 instancesLorehold Flashback Excavation RW55.9%4,340 instancesPrismari Opus Spellcasting UR54.3%725 instancesWitherbloom Lifegain Swarm BG52.8%1,302 instancesQuandrix Incremental Value UG48.7% ◌431 instancesBlack–Red BR100.0%1 instances · under 100Red–Green RG40.0%5 instances · under 100

Each tick is this card’s all-decks rate (54.6% · 18,315 instances). A high card rate does not prove that splashing it will improve your deck.

Usually played with

Deck co-occurrence; not evidence of synergy.

Elite Interceptor11,307 games with both in the deckAjani's Response8,984 games with both in the deckStone Docent8,841 games with both in the deck
How to read this

Observational, not a causal bonus. Both cards must be in the deck. Drawn means opening hand or normally drawn; each card counts once per game. Game-level approximate intervals do not account for repeated games by the same drafter.

At least 100 games in each of four drawn/not-drawn groups; adjusted for game length and screened by the lower confidence bound. Do not add these points to a card’s win rate.

Where it sits in the set

Above 38% of 320 nonland cards with 100+ instances, in win-rate order.

30% or lowerWin rate94% or higher

17Lands public datasets ↗ · CC BY 4.0 ↗ · Apr 21–Jun 2, 2026

Collect

1 printingScryfall USD, snapshot Oct 25Pack odds →

Pick a printing for its prices and pull odds.

Prices

SOS 0249 · Regular printingListings ↗
FinishFound inPrice
NonfoilPlay Booster · prerelease-lorehold · prerelease-prismari · prerelease-quandrix · prerelease-silverquill · prerelease-witherbloom$0.11
FoilCollector Booster · Play Booster$0.14

Foil in a Collector Booster · Modeled · About 1 in 22 packs (4.65%) · 43.5% per display · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →

Foil in a Play Booster · Modeled · About 1 in 149 packs (0.67%) · 18.3% per display · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →

Nonfoil in a Play Booster · Modeled · About 1 in 13 packs (7.83%) · 91.3% per display · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →

Nonfoil in a prerelease-lorehold · Modeled · About 1 in 4 packs (26.47%) · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →

Nonfoil in a prerelease-prismari · Modeled · About 1 in 4 packs (26.47%) · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →

Nonfoil in a prerelease-quandrix · Modeled · About 1 in 4 packs (26.47%) · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →

Nonfoil in a prerelease-silverquill · Modeled · About 1 in 4 packs (26.47%) · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →

Nonfoil in a prerelease-witherbloom · Modeled · About 1 in 4 packs (26.47%) · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →

How to pull it

Official rates for the whole category, not this card.

BoosterSlotPer packCategory
Play BoosterCommons100% per positionCommons
Play BoosterCommon or bonus-sheet replacement98.1818%Common
Play BoosterWildcard of any rarity100%Wildcard of any rarity
Play BoosterTraditional foil of any rarity100%Traditional foil of any rarity
Collector BoosterTraditional foil commons100% per positionTraditional foil commons

Wizards · Collecting Secrets of Strixhaven ↗ · Oct 29, 2026

Details & sources

Legal in
Standard · Historic · Timeless · Pioneer · Modern · Legacy · Pauper · Vintage · CommanderLimited eligibility depends on the event and its booster pool.
Illustration
Nino Vecia, SOS 249 · Scryfall ↗
More like this
Regular printing printings →
Sources
Wizards · Collecting Secrets of Strixhaven · Oct 29, 2026
Scryfall USD, snapshot Oct 25
Comprehensive Rules ↗