Fool's Tome
Artifact — Book
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: Draw a card. Activate only if you have no cards in hand.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- The List
- Price
- $0.14
- EDHREC rank
- #26626
Fool's Tome draws you a card each upkeep as long as your hand is empty — powerful in theory, but the empty-hand requirement makes it a liability rather than an engine in most decks. It shines only in shells built around discarding or emptying their hand fast, and anywhere else it sits on the battlefield doing nothing.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Fool's Tome is a niche piece that earns its slot only in decks specifically built to run out of cards — hellbent strategies or discard-matters builds where an empty hand is a feature, not a crisis. In Legacy and Vintage, faster and unconditional draw engines make it irrelevant; no competitive list wants to build around an empty hand when Brainstorm and Necropotence exist. Oathbreaker shares Commander's singleton environment, and the same narrow-shell logic applies: Fool's Tome rewards the right commander pairing and punishes everything else.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.14 bulk tier
At $0.14, Fool's Tome is pure bulk — the price reflects how seldom it slots into a deck without a dedicated empty-hand gameplan. It's a safe pickup if you're building around that condition, but don't expect the price to move in either direction.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.