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Brass Infiniscope

Artifact

{T}: Add {C}{C}. When you next cast a spell with {X} in its mana cost this turn, you draw a card and gain half X life, rounded down.

CMC
4
Mana cost
{4}
Color identity
C
Rarity
rare
Set
Secrets of Strixhaven Commander
Price
$0.56
EDHREC rank
#12565
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Brass Infiniscope card art
Brass Infiniscope lets you play lands from your hand untapped — as many as you want per turn — as long as you have no cards in hand, which makes it a powerhouse in decks built to empty their hand fast or draw and deploy in the same turn. The cost is real: you need a reliable way to hit zero cards, or it sits doing nothing, but in Zimone, Infinite Analyst shells that loop with Voltaic Construct, it's frequently a free extra land drop on every pass through the engine.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Zimone, Infinite Analyst

Zimone, Infinite Analyst

70.7% of decks · synergy 0.62

Brass Infiniscope is in over 70% of Zimone, Infinite Analyst decks for an obvious reason: Zimone's draw-and-discard loops regularly empty your hand, turning every land you peel into an immediate untapped drop that fuels the next activation.

02
Rosheen, Roaring Prophet

Rosheen, Roaring Prophet

30.2% of decks · synergy 0.30

Rosheen, Roaring Prophet builds wide boards quickly and draws heavily off X-spells, so Brass Infiniscope converts the empty-hand state those draw bursts create into extra land drops that keep the mana engine ahead of the curve.

03
Magus Lucea Kane

Magus Lucea Kane

27.6% of decks · synergy 0.26

Magus Lucea Kane copies spells and churns through cards at a high rate, and Brass Infiniscope rewards that velocity by letting you cash in every land you topdeck the moment your hand runs dry.

04
Primo, the Unbounded

Primo, the Unbounded

34.7% of decks · synergy 0.26

Primo, the Unbounded mills and recurs at scale, and the discard-heavy lines those engines run make hitting zero cards in hand a routine occurrence where Brass Infiniscope turns each land into a free untapped drop.

05
Zaxara, the Exemplary

Zaxara, the Exemplary

27.0% of decks · synergy 0.25

Zaxara, the Exemplary wants to cast as many X-spells as possible, and Brass Infiniscope slots in as a land-acceleration piece that pays off whenever a big draw spell empties your hand and leaves you with lands to deploy.

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

Brass Infiniscope is a Commander card — full stop. The condition of having no cards in hand is hard to engineer consistently in Legacy or Vintage, where fast interaction and card advantage make the payoff unreliable, and it's not legal in Modern, Pioneer, Standard, or Pauper anyway. In Oathbreaker, it can pull its weight in the same hand-emptying shells it favors in Commander, though the smaller card pool and faster game pace make the setup narrower. Commander is where Brass Infiniscope belongs: the 100-card singleton format rewards engines over raw card quality, and the commanders best suited to it — ones that draw aggressively, copy spells, or loop activations — create the exact conditions where extra untapped land drops snowball into a decisive tempo advantage.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

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PentavusDross ScorpionBrass Infiniscope

PentavusDross ScorpionBrass Infiniscope

Infinite ETB; Infinite LTB; Infinite card draw; Infinite death triggers; Infinite sacrifice triggers; Near-infinite lifegain; Near-infinite lifegain triggers; Infinite draw triggers

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Price Context

Current price

$0.56 bulk tier

At $0.56, Brass Infiniscope is firmly bulk, which makes it a trivial inclusion in any deck that can meet its condition. It's a spec card in the sense that its price reflects how niche the requirement is — if hand-emptying commanders keep getting printed, demand won't move this much, but at under a dollar there's no reason to hesitate if the shell fits.

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