Kyren Archive
Artifact — Book
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may exile the top card of your library face down.
, Discard your hand, Sacrifice this artifact: Put all cards exiled with this artifact into their owner's hand.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Mercadian Masques
- Price
- $0.38
- EDHREC rank
- #28363
Kyren Archive enters tapped, does nothing until you spend three mana to crack it, and the payoff — drawing three cards — is real but slow. At five mana total across two turns, it competes with instant-speed draw and loses on tempo in anything faster than a midrange Commander pod.
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 |
Kyren Archive is a Commander card through and through — the format's slower clock is the only place a tap-in, crack-later artifact fits comfortably. In Legacy and Vintage it's strictly unplayable; those formats punish two-turn setups before they resolve. Oathbreaker is legal and closer in pace to Commander, so the card functions there, but the 20-life total compresses games enough that the delay still stings. Stay in Commander if you're running Kyren Archive at all.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.38 bulk tier
At $0.38, Kyren Archive is deep bulk — easy to acquire, easy to cut without regret. Bulk draw artifacts rarely climb unless they find a broken combo home, and nothing about this card suggests that trajectory.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.