Inscribed Tablet
Artifact
, 
, Sacrifice this artifact: Reveal the top five cards of your library. Put a land card from among them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. If you didn't put a card into your hand this way, draw a card.
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Dominaria United
- Price
- $0.20
- EDHREC rank
- #18038
Inscribed Tablet enters, you scry 2, and if there's a nonland on top you draw it — that's up to a free card on a one-mana artifact. The catch is the randomness: against a stacked deck it's a full Divination on one mana, but against a land-heavy top it's a scry 2 and nothing else.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Inscribed Tablet earns its slot — one-mana cantrips are structurally rare in the format, and the scry 2 alone justifies the cost even when the draw whiffs. In competitive mana-efficient shells like storm or artifact-storm, the floor of scrying away two lands before a key turn is meaningful. Modern and Legacy have access to Ponder, Preordain, and Brainstorm, which strictly outclass Inscribed Tablet in any shell that can run them, so it doesn't see play there. Oathbreaker mirrors Commander's reasoning at a smaller table scale, making it a reasonable inclusion in tight spell-count builds.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.20 bulk tier
At $0.20, Inscribed Tablet is pure bulk — you're not paying for scarcity, you're paying for cardboard. It holds that floor reliably; a one-mana cantrip artifact has enough structural demand in Commander that it won't slip further.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.