Discovery // Dispersal
Sorcery // Instant
Surveil 2, then draw a card. (To 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.)
- CMC
- 7
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BU
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Ravnica: Clue Edition
- Price
- $0.15
- EDHREC rank
- #9410
Discovery // Dispersal does two things well: the Discovery half digs two deep and fills the graveyard for two mana, while Dispersal cleans up a board at instant speed for five. Mirko, Obsessive Theorist runs it because the surveil 2 on Discovery feeds the mill trigger every combat, and the split card's flexibility means you're never holding a dead card in the wrong game state.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Mirko, Obsessive Theorist
Mirko, Obsessive Theorist mills opponents equal to the cards surveilled into your own graveyard, so Discovery // Dispersal's surveil 2 is a direct damage spell dressed as card selection — two mana to bin two cards and mill two from each opponent simultaneously.
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 |
In Commander, Discovery // Dispersal earns its slot in any Dimir deck that cares about surveil, self-mill, or graveyard density — the two-mana half is efficient enough to run on curve, and the five-mana bounce-plus-discard gives you a late-game reset against voltron or token strategies. In Pioneer and Modern it's a fringe role-player in surveil-matters builds and reanimator shells that want to dump specific cards, though neither format offers quite enough payoff to push it into staple territory. Legacy and Vintage have access to strictly more powerful filtering, so Discovery // Dispersal doesn't compete there. The card's real home is Commander, where the split structure means it's almost never a dead draw.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.15 bulk tier
At $0.15, Discovery // Dispersal sits firmly in bulk territory — this is a pickup-a-playset-and-forget-about-it card. Don't expect the price to move; it sees just enough Commander play to keep it in print rotation but not enough competitive demand to spike.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.