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Biblioplex Assistant

Artifact Creature — Gargoyle

Flying
When this creature enters, put up to one target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard on top of your library.

CMC
4
Mana cost
{4}
Color identity
C
Rarity
common
Set
Strixhaven: School of Mages
Price
$0.13
EDHREC rank
#15193
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Biblioplex Assistant card art
Biblioplex Assistant gives you a repeatable instant-speed library search stapled to a flying body — the ceiling is high in any deck that cares about spells entering the graveyard or wants to set up its next draw. Quintorius Kand and Lorehold, the Historian make it shine hardest, converting each activation into extra value before the card even hits your hand.

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Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

In Commander, Biblioplex Assistant occupies a narrow but real niche: decks that care about spell types entering the graveyard or need repeatable instant-speed library manipulation at low mana cost. It won't slot into most lists, but in Lorehold-style spellslinger builds it earns its seat. In Pauper it's borderline — the activated ability costs mana each turn and the effect doesn't match what aggressive or tempo strategies want. Modern, Pioneer, and Legacy have enough cheap, efficient cantrips that Biblioplex Assistant can't compete for the slot. Oathbreaker mirrors Commander's logic: strong in dedicated spell-recursion shells, irrelevant elsewhere.

Key Combos

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Quintorius KandFlickerThousand-Year StormBiblioplex Assistant

Quintorius KandFlickerThousand-Year StormBiblioplex Assistant

Infinite blinking of permanents; Infinite damage; Infinite ETB; Infinite landfall triggers; Infinite lifegain; Infinite lifegain triggers; Infinite LTB; Infinite magecraft triggers; Infinite storm count; Infinite mana lands you control can produce

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Price Context

Current price

$0.13 bulk tier

At $0.13, Biblioplex Assistant is deep bulk — no barrier to picking up copies for any deck that wants it. Bulk rares with niche appeal rarely move unless they find a breakout home, so don't expect this to jump.

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