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Attentive Sunscribe

Artifact Creature — Gnome

Whenever this creature becomes tapped, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

CMC
2
Mana cost
{1}{W}
Color identity
W
Rarity
common
Set
The Lost Caverns of Ixalan
Price
$0.12
EDHREC rank
#17493
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Attentive Sunscribe card art
Attentive Sunscribe turns every artifact you control into a mana source for its activated ability, which means in the right shell it generates absurd value the turn it hits the table. The three-mana body is unremarkable, but Urza, Lord High Artificer players already understand this deal — cheap redundancy for a broken effect is worth the slot.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer legal
standard legal
vintage legal
pauper legal
oathbreaker legal

In Commander, Attentive Sunscribe is a role-player in dedicated artifact decks — it earns its slot by accelerating mana and enabling infinite-mana combos, not by standing alone. Outside of Commander, the card is legal everywhere but has no meaningful competitive footprint in Standard, Pioneer, Modern, or Legacy, where artifact mana acceleration is either outclassed or irrelevant to the format's pace. Pauper is the one eternal format where a cheap artifact-tapping creature could theoretically find a home, but the metagame's speed and the absence of the artifact density needed to break Attentive Sunscribe limits it there too.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.12 bulk tier

At $0.12, Attentive Sunscribe is firmly bulk — you're picking it up as a throw-in, not a purchase. Demand is narrow enough that the price is unlikely to climb unless a new high-profile artifact commander pushes it into widespread lists.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.