Confession Dial
Artifact
When this artifact enters, surveil 3.
: Target legendary creature card in your graveyard gains escape until end of turn. The escape cost is equal to its mana cost plus exile three other cards from your graveyard. (You may cast it from your graveyard for its escape cost this turn.)
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Doctor Who
- Price
- $0.17
- EDHREC rank
- #13476
Confession Dial lets you look at an opponent's hand and exile a nonland card from it — repeatable hand disruption stapled to an artifact that also taps for colorless mana. The setup cost (three mana plus tapping a creature you control) is real, but the effect scales with the number of creatures you run and punishes opponents who stockpile answers.
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 |
Confession Dial is a Commander card through and through — the 100-card singleton format rewards incremental disruption, and stripping a combo piece or a board wipe from an opponent's hand before they can deploy it is worth the investment in a multiplayer game. In Legacy and Vintage, where Confession Dial is technically legal, the tempo cost of tapping a creature to activate it is disqualifying; those formats kill faster than hand disruption at this speed can matter. Oathbreaker is the one other constructed-adjacent format where it sees any meaningful consideration, particularly in decks that already want repeatable discard outlets.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.17 bulk tier
At $0.17, Confession Dial is deep bulk — you're not paying a premium for the effect, and there's no meaningful price floor to fall through. Bulk rares rarely climb unless a specific combo or commander breakout pushes demand, so treat this as a cheap pickup if the effect fits your build, not a spec.
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Sources
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.