Conch Horn
Artifact
, 
, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw two cards, then put a card from your hand on top of your library.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Fallen Empires
- Price
- $2.45
- EDHREC rank
- #19157
Conch Horn lets you pay 1 mana and discard a card to put your top card on the bottom of your library — a niche effect that exists almost exclusively to reset a card you've already cast once, like Approach of the Second Sun, back into a searchable position. The cost in cards and mana is real, and outside that narrow use case, it has almost no home.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Conch Horn is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but the only format where it sees any real play is Commander. In Legacy and Vintage, the effect is too slow and too card-negative to compete. In Commander, Conch Horn occupies a very specific slot: decks that need to recycle a single card back into the library on demand — most commonly spell-based win conditions that require a second cast — rather than anything resembling general utility.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Approach of the Second SunSunbird's InvocationGod-Eternal KefnetConch Horn
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Current price
$2.45 cheap tier
At $2.45, Conch Horn sits in the cheap tier despite being a narrow, low-demand card — the price reflects collector interest in an older printing more than competitive demand. It holds value mostly through scarcity rather than play rate, so don't expect it to move much in either direction.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.