Mangara's Tome
Artifact — Book
When this artifact enters, search your library for five cards, exile them in a face-down pile, and shuffle that pile. Then shuffle your library.
: The next time you would draw a card this turn, instead put the top card of the exiled pile into its owner's hand.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Mirage
- Price
- $3.00
- EDHREC rank
- #20786
Mangara's Tome enters and immediately searches out five specific cards, front-loading all its value before opponents can destroy it. Five mana for a slow-drip draw engine is a steep ask when you have to wait five turns to see your cards, but the tutoring effect at entry makes it uniquely powerful in decks that want specific pieces.
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 |
Commander is where Mangara's Tome has any real home — the 100-card singleton format makes the on-entry tutor effect genuinely meaningful, and the slower pace of the game gives you time to cash in the counters. Legacy and Vintage are both legal but have no interest in a five-mana artifact that doles out cards one per turn; the formats move too fast and have far more efficient draw. Oathbreaker is theoretically viable but shares the same problem: the payoff is too spread out for a format where games end quickly.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$3.00 cheap tier
At $3.00, Mangara's Tome sits at the low end of niche-but-functional Commander staples. It holds that price because demand is narrow and casual — don't expect movement in either direction.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.