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Experimental Frenzy

Enchantment

You may look at the top card of your library any time.
You may play lands and cast spells from the top of your library.
You can't play lands or cast spells from your hand.
{3}{R}: Destroy this enchantment.

CMC
4
Mana cost
{3}{R}
Color identity
R
Rarity
rare
Set
Guilds of Ravnica
Price
$0.29
EDHREC rank
#13533
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Experimental Frenzy card art
Experimental Frenzy turns the top of your library into a second hand — every turn, for as long as it stays on the board. The catch is you can't cast cards from your actual hand, so pair it with Sensei's Divining Top or similar manipulation to avoid bricking on a land you can't play.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Experimental Frenzy is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, and Oathbreaker — but it only sees meaningful play in Commander, where games go long enough to extract real value from sustained card advantage at four mana. In Modern and Pioneer, four mana for a do-nothing enchantment that locks you out of your hand is too slow and too vulnerable to removal to compete with faster engines. Legacy and Vintage have enough broken card advantage that Experimental Frenzy doesn't register. Commander is its home: redundancy matters less, the enchantment sticks longer, and the self-destruct clause doubles as on-demand removal insurance.

Key Combos

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Price Context

Current price

$0.29 bulk tier

At $0.29, Experimental Frenzy is deep bulk — pick it up without thinking twice. Bulk enchantments with narrow applications rarely appreciate, so treat it as a cheap role-player rather than a spec.

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