Fountainport Bell
Artifact
When this artifact enters, you may search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, then shuffle and put that card on top.
, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Bloomburrow
- Price
- $0.20
- EDHREC rank
- #5140
Fountainport Bell puts a scry-and-draw engine on the table for three mana, then taxes it at one mana per activation — slow, but cumulative card selection that compounds over a long game. In Syr Ginger, the Meal Ender decks it doubles as a colorless-artifact payoff, which is the only context where it clears the bar for competitive consideration.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Syr Ginger, the Meal Ender
Syr Ginger, the Meal Ender cares about colorless artifacts entering and being sacrificed, and Fountainport Bell checks the artifact box while providing the card selection that keeps the engine churning — it's a two-for-one on synergy axes in a deck that wants exactly this kind of low-overhead utility piece.
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 |
Fountainport Bell is legal everywhere but competes almost nowhere outside Commander. In Modern and Legacy, a three-mana artifact that doesn't immediately affect the board and costs an additional mana to activate is too slow against faster card-advantage engines. Pioneer and Standard have the same problem — you're paying three to set up a repeatable effect that stronger formats ignore entirely. Commander is where it lives: the game goes long enough that scry-then-draw activations accumulate real value, and the colorless identity means it slots into any deck that wants incremental selection without committing to a color.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.20 bulk tier
At $0.20, Fountainport Bell is deep bulk — a penny-bin pickup with no meaningful price floor to speak of. Its niche is narrow enough that demand will stay low, so don't expect the price to move, but the cost to include it is effectively zero.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.