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Bösium Strip

Artifact

{3}, {T}: Until end of turn, you may cast instant and sorcery spells from the top of your graveyard. If a spell cast this way would be put into a graveyard, exile it instead.

CMC
3
Mana cost
{3}
Color identity
C
Rarity
rare
Set
Weatherlight
Price
$3.67
EDHREC rank
#22802
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Bösium Strip card art
Bösium Strip lets you cast spells from your graveyard as though they were in your hand — once per turn, and only the top card — which is narrow enough that most decks ignore it and exactly broken enough that Orvar, the All-Form turns it into a value engine. The setup cost is real: you need a stocked graveyard and a way to keep the top card relevant, but in the right shell it's a repeatable recursion engine for three mana.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern not legal
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Bösium Strip is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but its home is Commander — the long game and graveyard-heavy strategies make the once-per-turn restriction feel like a feature rather than a handicap. In Legacy and Vintage, it's simply too slow and too conditional; those formats want graveyard recursion that operates at instant speed or scales beyond a single card per turn, and Bösium Strip does neither. Oathbreaker can support it in the right shell, but the 20-life clock makes grinding through your graveyard card-by-card a losing race. Stick to Commander.

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Price Context

Current price

$3.67 cheap tier

At $3.67, Bösium Strip sits in the cheap tier — low enough to include speculatively in any graveyard-matters build without meaningful budget friction. It's a narrow card with a loyal niche audience, so the price is stable rather than climbing; don't expect it to spike, but don't expect it to drop either.

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