Flotsam // Jetsam
Instant // Sorcery
Mill three cards. Investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "
, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")
- CMC
- 8
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BGU
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Murders at Karlov Manor
- Price
- $0.16
- EDHREC rank
- #14324
Flotsam // Jetsam puts a 3/3 horror token into play and draws you a card in one package — solid return for five mana, with the back half threatening a late-game mana dump into a massive finisher. It's a role-player in decks that want bodies and card flow stapled together, not a staple you build around.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Flotsam // Jetsam is at its best in Commander, where the token-plus-draw front half replaces itself on a slower curve and the Jetsam back half closes games once you're floating a pile of mana. In faster constructed formats like Modern and Pioneer, five mana for a 3/3 and a card doesn't clear the bar against what the format's threats and interaction are doing by turn five. Legacy and Vintage make it even more irrelevant. Standard is the one constructed context where it might see fringe play if the format's threats are slow enough to let you untap with it.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.16 bulk tier
At $0.16, Flotsam // Jetsam is deep bulk — pick it up for pocket change and don't think twice. It won't appreciate, but you're not buying it for that; you're buying it because the effect is real and the cost to include it is essentially zero.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.