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Evermind

Instant — Arcane

(Nonexistent mana costs can't be paid.)
Draw a card.
Splice onto Arcane {1}{U} (As you cast an Arcane spell, you may reveal this card from your hand and pay its splice cost. If you do, add this card's effects to that spell.)

CMC
0
Mana cost
Color identity
U
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Saviors of Kamigawa
Price
$0.29
EDHREC rank
#19786
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Evermind card art
Evermind draws you a card every time you cast or copy an instant or sorcery — for free, since it has no mana cost and is played via splice onto arcane. The catch is that splice requires an arcane spell as the vehicle, which makes Elite Arcanist the cleanest enabler in Commander; outside of dedicated arcane builds, this card does nothing.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Evermind is a Commander card almost exclusively — the arcane subtype is too narrow for Legacy or Vintage, where you'd rather run cantrips that don't require a support structure. In Commander, Evermind finds a home in Arcane-tribal or spellslinger builds that already run enough arcane spells to splice onto consistently. Modern and Pioneer offer no meaningful arcane density to exploit it, and it's illegal in Pauper and Standard entirely. If your Commander deck is built around the mechanic, it's a legitimate repeatable draw engine; if it isn't, it's a dead card in every format.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

3 decks
Elite ArcanistJeskai AscendancyEvermind

Elite ArcanistJeskai AscendancyEvermind

Infinite card draw; Infinite draw triggers; Near-infinitely large creatures until end of turn; Near-infinite magecraft triggers; Near-infinite self-discard triggers; Near-infinite storm count; Near-infinite untap of creatures you control; Near-infinite mana creatures you control can produce

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Price Context

Current price

$0.29 bulk tier

At $0.29, Evermind is bulk — accurate pricing for a card with a narrow legal use case. It won't appreciate unless arcane gets a serious reprint push or a new Commander card breaks the mechanic wide open, neither of which looks likely.

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