Bag of Devouring
Artifact
Whenever you sacrifice another nontoken artifact or creature, exile it.,
, Sacrifice another artifact or creature: Draw a card.
,
, Sacrifice this artifact: Roll a d10. Return up to X cards from among cards exiled with this artifact to their owners' hands, where X is the result.
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Forgotten Realms Commander
- Price
- $0.28
- EDHREC rank
- #16607
Bag of Devouring turns a stream of creature tokens into a repeatable draw engine — sacrifice enough fodder and you're refilling your hand every turn for free. The cost is real: you need a dedicated sacrifice shell to make it hum, and it does nothing in a vacuum.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Bag of Devouring is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but it's a Commander card through and through. The 100-card singleton format gives it the widest access to token producers, sacrifice payoffs, and the kind of attrition-based engines that make rolling a die for extra cards feel like value rather than a gimmick. In Legacy and Vintage it's simply outclassed — those formats move faster and have no interest in a three-mana artifact that asks for setup. Oathbreaker can support it in the right shell, but the smaller deck size and lower creature counts make consistent fueling harder.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.28 bulk tier
At $0.28, Bag of Devouring sits firmly in bulk territory — the kind of card you grab as a throw-in without a second thought. Bulk artifacts with niche-but-real applications tend to stay in this range indefinitely, so don't expect the price to move unless a future commander pushes sacrifice-based draw into the spotlight.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.