Accumulated Knowledge
Instant
Draw a card, then draw cards equal to the number of cards named Accumulated Knowledge in all graveyards.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Friday Night Magic 2004
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #25864
Accumulated Knowledge draws one card for two mana on the first copy, and scales up sharply the more copies have hit graveyards — including your opponents'. In a singleton format like Commander it rarely fires above two cards, which makes it a below-rate option compared to instant-speed draw spells that don't depend on graveyard count.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Pauper is where Accumulated Knowledge earns its reputation: four-of redundancy means a second or third copy routinely draws three or four cards at instant speed for two mana, which is genuinely broken value at common rarity. Legacy decks have used it in blue control shells for the same reason — stacking copies in a single turn can refill a hand completely. In Commander, the singleton rule guts the scaling; you're almost always drawing one or two cards, and Accumulated Knowledge loses the head-to-head against staples like Fact or Fiction or even Frantic Search at that yield. It's legal in Oathbreaker and Vintage as well, but the verdict tracks with Commander — singleton dilutes it, and powered formats have better options.
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Price Context
Current price
unknown tier
Pricing data isn't available for Accumulated Knowledge at the moment, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for current market rates. Given its pauper staple status it tends to hold modest but stable demand, though physical copies are cheap enough that it's rarely a budget concern.
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Sources
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.