Candlestick
Artifact — Clue Equipment
Equipped creature gets +1/+1 and has "Whenever this creature attacks, surveil 2." (Look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.)
, Sacrifice this Equipment: Draw a card.
Equip
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Ravnica: Clue Edition
- Price
- $0.22
- EDHREC rank
- #11844
Candlestick taps to draw a card whenever you mill cards equal to its printed number — an on-board milling accelerant and draw engine rolled into one artifact. In Mirko, Obsessive Theorist decks, that trigger fires constantly, making this a cheap, repeatable source of card advantage that most artifacts can't match at this cost.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Mirko, Obsessive Theorist
Mirko, Obsessive Theorist mills opponents on every attack, which means Candlestick's draw trigger fires reliably every combat step — the two cards are a natural engine that keeps your hand full while you grind the table out.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Candlestick is legal everywhere except Pauper, but outside Commander it sees essentially no play — the mill payoff is too slow and incidental for the speed of Legacy, Modern, or Pioneer. In Commander, it earns its slot specifically in mill-focused decks where the trigger fires multiple times per round rather than once every few turns. Outside of dedicated mill builds, the effect is too conditional to justify the slot over a generic draw piece.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.22 bulk tier
At $0.22, Candlestick is deep bulk — you're paying draft-chaff prices for what is genuinely a synergy-specific card. It won't appreciate unless mill becomes a dominant Commander archetype, so treat it as a cheap pickup for the right deck and nothing more.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.