Midnight Clock
Artifact
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: Put an hour counter on this artifact.
At the beginning of each upkeep, put an hour counter on this artifact.
When the twelfth hour counter is put on this artifact, shuffle your hand and graveyard into your library, then draw seven cards. Exile this artifact.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- New Capenna Commander
- Price
- $0.38
- EDHREC rank
- #602
Midnight Clock is a three-mana mana rock that replaces your entire hand with seven cards — the payoff is enormous, and the only real cost is the twelve turns of patience it demands. In decks helmed by Nathan Drake, Treasure Hunter, where the Clock's hourly counter generation can be accelerated and its wheel effect resets a depleted hand into a fresh seven, it earns its slot without argument.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Nathan Drake, Treasure Hunter
Nathan Drake, Treasure Hunter synergizes with Midnight Clock at the mechanical level — treasure generation and adventure-based spell chaining burn through cards fast, and the Clock's wheel refills the hand right when resources run dry.
Tegwyll, Duke of Splendor
Tegwyll, Duke of Splendor bleeds card advantage every time a faerie dies, so Midnight Clock's hand-reset functions as insurance: once the attrition catches up and your hand is empty, seven fresh cards puts the engine back in motion.
The Watcher in the Water
The Watcher in the Water wants as many instant and sorcery spells in hand as possible to trigger its tentacle mechanic, making Midnight Clock's wheel effect a direct threat multiplier — more cards means more spells means more triggers.
Saheeli, Radiant Creator
Saheeli, Radiant Creator's artifact-heavy shells appreciate Midnight Clock both as a mana source and as a combo-accessible permanent; copying the Clock with Saheeli resets the counter to zero on each copy, generating additional hourly triggers in the same turn cycle.
Obeka, Splitter of Seconds
Obeka, Splitter of Seconds interacts with Midnight Clock's end-step trigger by ending turns before the wheel fires, letting the controller accumulate hour counters across many turns and choose exactly when to cash in the seven-card refill.
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 |
Midnight Clock is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but its real home is Commander by a wide margin. In 100-card singleton, the combination of mana rock and hand refill on a single card is genuinely efficient, and the slow clock rarely matters at a four-player table where the game naturally goes long. In Modern and Pioneer, the twelve-turn window is simply too slow — aggro and midrange decks close out games before the wheel ever fires, and three mana for a conditional effect doesn't compete with the format's tempo demands. Legacy and Vintage have access to faster and more reliable card advantage, so Midnight Clock sees essentially no competitive play there either. Treat it as a Commander-specific card that happens to be technically legal elsewhere.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.38 bulk tier
At $0.38, Midnight Clock sits firmly in bulk territory, which makes it an easy include — you're paying almost nothing for a card that pulls real weight in slower blue Commander decks. Bulk rares with genuine constructed utility tend to stay cheap, so don't expect this to spike, but there's no reason not to own several copies at this price.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.