Arcane Spyglass
Artifact
, 
, Sacrifice a land: Draw a card and put a charge counter on this artifact.
Remove three charge counters from this artifact: Draw a card.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Darksteel
- Price
- $0.19
- EDHREC rank
- #19647
Arcane Spyglass enters, draws you a card, and leaves a charge counter behind to cash in for another draw later — solid on-board value for three mana. The cost is that it's an artifact with no immediate board impact, so it competes hard against two-mana rocks that also ramp you.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Arcane Spyglass occupies the crowded middle tier of card draw artifacts — fine in a pinch, outclassed by Skullclamp or Ichor Wellspring on pure efficiency. Pauper is where it finds the most comfortable home, since the draw options at common are thinner and an enters-the-battlefield cantrip on a reusable body is genuinely competitive. In Legacy and Vintage, Arcane Spyglass doesn't show up — the formats move too fast and the bar for a three-mana artifact that doesn't win the game is functionally impossible to clear. Oathbreaker mirrors Commander's verdict: playable, not optimal.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.19 bulk tier
At $0.19, Arcane Spyglass is bulk — you can throw it in a deck without thinking about the budget impact. It holds that floor price indefinitely; there's no spike waiting here, just a card you grab from a bulk bin when you need cheap card draw.
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Sources
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.