Eviscerator's Insight

Instant

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice an artifact or creature.
Draw two cards.
Flashback {4}{B} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost and any additional costs. Then exile it.)

CMC
2
Mana cost
{1}{B}
Color identity
B
Rarity
common
Set
Modern Horizons 3
Price
$0.30
EDHREC rank
#3716
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Eviscerator's Insight card art
Eviscerator's Insight draws three cards and creates a Treasure token for four mana — that's a meaningful card-advantage swing at a cost that black-based sacrifice and aristocrats decks are happy to pay. Teysa, Opulent Oligarch decks run it without hesitation, and anything that wants bodies, death triggers, or mana acceleration on the same line should follow suit.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

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Teysa, Opulent Oligarch

Teysa, Opulent Oligarch

18.7% of decks · synergy 0.17

Teysa, Opulent Oligarch wants both halves of Eviscerator's Insight: the Treasure feeds into sacrifice outlets while the three cards replace whatever you just fed to the altar.

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Ashnod, Flesh Mechanist

Ashnod, Flesh Mechanist

14.0% of decks · synergy 0.12

Ashnod, Flesh Mechanist is hungry for Treasures to crack and artifacts to recur, so Eviscerator's Insight arriving with both a card-draw payoff and a Treasure artifact token is a clean two-for-one on her priorities.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander
legacy
modern
pioneer
standard
vintage
pauper
oathbreaker

Eviscerator's Insight is a Commander card first and foremost — four mana for three cards and a Treasure is a reasonable rate in a singleton format where card advantage compounds across a long game. In Pauper, common-legal card draw is scarce enough that it sees occasional play in slower black control shells, though the four-mana ask is steep for that format's pace. Legacy and Vintage have no interest; those formats have access to draw spells that cost one mana and don't ask you to wait. Commander remains the only context where Eviscerator's Insight consistently earns its slot.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.30 bulk tier

At $0.30, Eviscerator's Insight sits firmly in bulk territory, which is exactly where a role-player with a narrow home belongs. Grab it freely — there's no financial ceiling to chase here, and it will stay cheap as long as it stays out of cEDH.

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