Silverquill Influence drives Greater Auramancy spike ahead of Strixhaven Commander release
Silverquill Influence has pushed Greater Auramancy to about $26, as enchantment players rush to protect the same aura shells the new precon is built to reward.
Greater Auramancy is the first real wallet hit from Secrets of Strixhaven, and it makes sense the moment you look at what Silverquill Influence is trying to do. Wizards of the Coast revealed the five Commander decks on April 1, each with 100 cards and 10 new-to-Magic cards, and the product lands on April 24 after prerelease events run April 17 through April 23. That gave Commander players a short runway to spot the obvious pressure point: if one deck is built around loading up creatures with Auras and leaning on table politics, the best enchantment protection in the format is going to move fast.
Silverquill Influence has become the headline deck because its game plan is narrower than a typical precon. Instead of just piling on value, it wants to enchant opponents’ creatures, then use that pressure and card advantage to keep the table off balance. EDHREC’s precon page puts Killian, Decisive Mentor in the face slot and also shows Eriette of the Charmed Apple as one of the deck’s commanders, which is a clear signal that the set is pushing the same aura-and-enchantment shell from multiple angles. Once that shell starts getting attention, cards that keep key enchantments alive stop looking optional.
Greater Auramancy is the cleanest beneficiary. Its Oracle text gives other enchantments you control shroud and also grants shroud to enchanted creatures you control, which is exactly the kind of protection that keeps an aura engine from collapsing to a single removal spell. EDHREC lists the card in 60,463 Commander decks with a 1.51% inclusion rate, so this was already a known staple. The new demand spike has simply squeezed a card that was already widely respected. It now sits around $26, and more than 300 near-mint copies of the Enchanting Tales printing have sold over the last three months, with the sharpest jump arriving after the Silverquill Influence reveal.
That matters because the decklist itself suggests the squeeze is not over. EDHREC shows only 544 of more than 2,700 Killian lists running Greater Auramancy, which leaves a lot of room for players to revisit old builds and start buying into the same protection package. If you already own a copy, it has become one of the safer cards to keep. If you want one for a Silverquill, Eriette, or Killian build, the binder is the first place to check, because the easy copies are probably gone. The same aura-protection staples that make this deck work are the next cards most likely to follow Greater Auramancy upward before release day hits.
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