Book Devourer
Creature — Beast
Trample
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, you may discard all the cards in your hand. If you do, draw that many cards.
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Guilds of Ravnica
- Price
- $0.15
- EDHREC rank
- #22778
Book Devourer lets you rummage your entire hand — discard everything, draw that many cards — stapled to a 4/4 trample body for five mana. The effect is powerful in the right shell, but five mana for a vanilla-statted creature means you need to be actively abusing the discard trigger to justify the slot.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Book Devourer is a Commander card — the formats where hand-size matters less and synergy engines run deep are exactly where it earns a slot. In 60-card competitive formats like Modern, Legacy, or Pioneer, a five-mana 4/4 with a once-per-turn looting effect doesn't come close to the efficiency bar; it won't see play there. In Commander, the calculus changes: discard-matters commanders and reanimator shells can turn the mass-rummage into a repeatable engine, and the trample body is incidental upside on a card that's doing real work in the right 99.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.15 bulk tier
At $0.15, Book Devourer is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard, not scarcity. That price is stable; there's no demand pressure pushing it up, and the card is niche enough that it won't spike unless a breakout Commander deck goes viral.
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Sources
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.