Liar's Pendulum
Artifact
, 
: Choose a card name. Target opponent guesses whether a card with that name is in your hand. You may reveal your hand. If you do and your opponent guessed wrong, draw a card.
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Mirrodin
- Price
- $0.69
- EDHREC rank
- #14322
Liar's Pendulum lets you name a card each upkeep and force an opponent to either reveal it from their hand or let you put it from your library directly into your hand — repeatable hand disruption and tutoring stapled to a one-mana artifact. Outside of The Celestial Toymaker, where it's nearly an auto-include, the payoff depends entirely on your ability to bluff or read opponents, which makes it a strong political tool but a weak consistency piece in most other shells.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
The Celestial Toymaker
The Celestial Toymaker turns Liar's Pendulum into a reliable engine: the guessing-game tension the commander already creates means opponents are already uncertain what you're holding, which tilts every Pendulum activation in your favor and rewards correct bluffs with free library access.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Liar's Pendulum sees essentially zero play in Legacy, Modern, or Vintage — formats where one mana has to do something immediate, and a once-per-upkeep guessing game is too slow and opponent-dependent to compete. Commander is its real home, where the political dynamic makes the bluff viable and the repeatable nature of the effect compounds over a longer game. Even there, it's a niche inclusion: you run it in The Celestial Toymaker because the deck is built around the same kind of mind-game pressure, not as a general-purpose recommendation.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.69 bulk tier
At $0.69, Liar's Pendulum sits firmly in bulk territory, and there's no pressure on that price — demand is almost entirely driven by The Celestial Toymaker players, a single-commander niche that keeps the ceiling low.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.