Found Footage
Artifact — Clue
You may look at face-down creatures your opponents control any time.
, Sacrifice this artifact: Surveil 2, then draw a card. (To surveil 2, look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.)
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Duskmourn: House of Horror
- Price
- $0.04
- EDHREC rank
- #18109
Found Footage puts a copy of itself into your library face-down every upkeep, snowballing into a hidden-information nightmare that rewards players who can exploit the manifest mechanic. The payoff is real but slow — this is a card for decks built around it, not a slot filler.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Found Footage is a Commander card through and through — the slow accumulation of face-down manifested copies only matters in a 40-life multiplayer game where you have enough turns to weaponize the hidden-information pressure. In competitive 60-card formats like Modern or Pioneer, the payoff arrives far too late and the card offers no immediate board impact, making it unplayable in those contexts. Pauper is where Found Footage sits at its most irrelevant outside of Commander — there's no meaningful manifest infrastructure to support it. Legacy and Vintage have the raw power level to simply ignore what Found Footage is building toward. Stick to Commander.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.04 bulk tier
At $0.04, Found Footage is deep bulk — you're paying essentially nothing for a card with a very narrow home. Price stability at this tier is a non-issue; it's a pickup-whenever card with no meaningful demand floor to watch.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.