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Bond of Insight

Sorcery

Each player mills four cards. Return up to two instant and/or sorcery cards from your graveyard to your hand. Exile Bond of Insight.

CMC
4
Mana cost
{3}{U}
Color identity
U
Rarity
uncommon
Set
War of the Spark
Price
$0.27
EDHREC rank
#9745
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Bond of Insight card art
Bond of Insight mills all opponents for two and returns four instants or sorceries from your graveyard to hand — at five mana, that's a lot of text for a one-shot sorcery, but in decks that want the graveyard full and the hand restocked, it pulls serious weight. Storm-Kiln Artist turns each recycled spell into a Treasure the moment you cast it, and The Emperor of Palamecia runs Bond of Insight in nearly 30% of lists because the recursion directly fuels another cast chain.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01

The Emperor of Palamecia

29.7% of decks · synergy 0.29

The Emperor of Palamecia appears in almost 30% of lists precisely because Bond of Insight refuels the instant and sorcery chain that keeps the Emperor's ability triggering — mill four, get four spells back, cast them all over again.

02
Melek, Reforged Researcher

Melek, Reforged Researcher

14.8% of decks · synergy 0.14

Melek, Reforged Researcher wants a deep graveyard and a stocked hand of instants and sorceries, and Bond of Insight delivers both in one shot while setting up the next wave of casts.

03
Bruvac the Grandiloquent

Bruvac the Grandiloquent

11.1% of decks · synergy 0.10

Bruvac the Grandiloquent uses Bond of Insight as a mill enabler — each opponent losing two cards is modest on its own, but repeated recursion and recasting turns it into a repeatable mill source that stacks with Bruvac's doubling effect.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Bond of Insight is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, and Oathbreaker — but it's almost exclusively a Commander card. In competitive Constructed, five mana for a sorcery that doesn't immediately close a game is too slow, and graveyard decks in those formats have cheaper, more explosive recursion available. Commander is where it earns its slot: the multiplayer mill hits three opponents at once, and the four-spell return can rebuild an entire hand after a wheel or a counterspell war. Oathbreaker is a reasonable secondary home if the planeswalker strategy leans on instant and sorcery recursion.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

60 decks
Storm-Kiln ArtistBond of InsightTwincast

Storm-Kiln ArtistBond of InsightTwincast

Infinite magecraft triggers; Infinite mill; Infinite self-mill; Infinite storm count; Put all instant and sorcery cards from your graveyard and library into your hand

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47 decks
Bond of InsightTwincastTurnabout

Bond of InsightTwincastTurnabout

Infinite mill; Infinite self-mill; Infinite storm count; Infinite mana lands you control can produce; Infinite magecraft triggers; Put all instant and sorcery cards from your graveyard and library into your hand; Infinite casts of instants in your graveyard and/or hand

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Price Context

Current price

$0.27 bulk tier

At $0.27, Bond of Insight is firmly bulk — pick it up without a second thought if the deck calls for it. Bulk sorceries with narrow homes don't tend to climb in price, so don't expect this to be a spec target, but at this price it's one of the cheapest ways to refuel an instant-and-sorcery-heavy strategy in Commander.

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