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Idle Thoughts

Enchantment

{2}: Draw a card if you have no cards in hand.

CMC
4
Mana cost
{3}{U}
Color identity
U
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Eventide
Price
$0.14
EDHREC rank
#27162
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Idle Thoughts card art
Idle Thoughts turns a full grip into a repeatable draw engine — pay four mana, and every end step where you're holding seven or more cards nets you an extra card for free. The catch is that setup cost: at four mana for an enchantment that does nothing until you're already ahead on cards, it's a payoff piece, not an enabler, and it competes directly with powerhouses like Cadaverous Bloom for that enchantment slot in hand-size-matters builds.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Commander is the only realistic home for Idle Thoughts. The 100-card singleton format inflates hand sizes through group hug effects, wheel strategies, and commanders like Alandra, Sky Dreamer or Hullbreaker Horror that reward holding cards — exactly the environment where Idle Thoughts triggers reliably. In Legacy and Vintage it's legal but unplayable; those formats move too fast for a four-mana enchantment that conditionally draws one card per turn cycle. Oathbreaker is legal and theoretically viable if your planeswalker strategy revolves around card accumulation, but the 60-card deck size makes hitting the seven-card threshold harder to engineer consistently.

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Price Context

Current price

$0.14 bulk tier

At $0.14, Idle Thoughts is deep bulk — a throwaway pickup in any order that needs filler to hit a shipping minimum. Price stability is essentially guaranteed because the floor is already the floor; there's no meaningful demand spike coming for a four-mana conditional draw enchantment with narrow applications.

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