Leitmotif Composer

Oracle Text

Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, draw a card.
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell with mana value 5 or greater, create a token that's a copy of this creature.
{2}{U}: Creatures named Leitmotif Composer can't be blocked this turn.

Card Details

2/2Power / Toughness

2UMana Cost

2Prints

Set

Secrets of Strixhaven Commander · View all prints →

Character Background

Leitmotif Composer is a tidy value engine for blue decks that want to turn spells into a growing ensemble, especially tempo and spellslinger builds. A 2/2 for three mana is modest, but once it connects in combat it replaces itself, and its unblockable activation makes that damage trigger much more reliable than it first appears. The real payoff comes from casting expensive instants and sorceries: every spell with mana value 5 or greater copies the Composer, quickly snowballing into multiple evasive card-draw threats. That makes it excellent with big, splashy interaction or finishers like card-draw refills, extra-turn effects, or burn-plus-countermagic shells that naturally reach high mana values. In Commander, pair it with cost reducers and spells that scale from copies, then protect the board long enough to assemble a chorus of Composers. The card rewards patience, board control, and a deck built to cast one anthem-sized spell after another.

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