Mind's Eye
Artifact
Whenever an opponent draws a card, you may pay 
. If you do, draw a card.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- mythic
- Set
- The Brothers' War Retro Artifacts
- Price
- $5.44
- EDHREC rank
- #2506
Mind's Eye turns every opponent's draw step into card advantage for you — five mana to cast, one mana per trigger, and it scales with table size in Commander the way it never could in a duel. Wedding Ring does something similar but ties your fate to one opponent; Karn, Legacy Reforged can generate enough mana to fire Mind's Eye's ability multiple times a turn cycle without breaking a sweat.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Karn, Legacy Reforged
Karn, Legacy Reforged builds a board of Powerstone tokens and legendary artifacts, and Mind's Eye is a legendary artifact that turns all that banked mana into cards — the two pieces feed each other naturally. At three opponents drawing each turn, you're looking at three free triggers per round if Karn has kept the mana flowing.
Ashnod, Flesh Mechanist
Ashnod, Flesh Mechanist churns out Necrite tokens and generates colorless mana from sacrifices, giving Mind's Eye a reliable payment source every single turn cycle. The deck already wants high-value artifacts, and a card-draw engine that costs one colorless per trigger fits the sacrifice economy cleanly.
Liberator, Urza's Battlethopter
Liberator, Urza's Battlethopter lets you cast artifacts at flash speed on opponents' turns, which means you can deploy Mind's Eye at end of turn and immediately start cashing in triggers before your own draw step. That one-turn head start on card advantage is the whole reason colorless flash shells reach for it.
The Capitoline Triad
The Capitoline Triad is a white-based go-wide commander that often lacks reliable card draw, and Mind's Eye patches that hole without requiring colored mana. At 37% inclusion, it's become a near-staple answer to the color identity's traditional card disadvantage.
Avacyn, Angel of Hope
Avacyn, Angel of Hope makes your permanents indestructible, which means Mind's Eye sticks on the table indefinitely and keeps printing cards for as long as opponents draw. White's chronic card-draw problem is exactly the gap Mind's Eye fills here.
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 |
Mind's Eye is a Commander card, full stop. The four-player table means three opponent draw triggers per round, which turns a one-mana-per-card rate into a genuine engine; in a duel that rate is merely fair, and five mana for a do-nothing-until-opponents-draw artifact is too slow for Legacy or Vintage. It's legal in both of those formats but sees essentially no play there — the competitive card pools have faster, cheaper ways to draw. In Oathbreaker the two-player norm cuts the trigger count in half, but decks lacking blue can still find it useful. The card's entire value proposition is the multiplayer math.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Wedding RingMind's EyeMind Over Matter
Infinite card draw for opponents that control a Wedding Ring; Infinite draw triggers for opponents that control a Wedding Ring; Infinite looting; Infinite self-discard triggers
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Wedding RingMind's EyeSkirge Familiar
Infinite card draw for opponents that control a Wedding Ring; Infinite draw triggers for opponents that control a Wedding Ring; Infinite looting; Infinite self-discard triggers
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Cheaper options that do most of the same work
The closest budget replacement is Seer's Sundial, which triggers on your own landfall rather than opponents' draws — more predictable but much lower ceiling in a four-player game. Staff of Nin costs one more mana, draws on your own upkeep instead, and is immune to the "I'll just not draw extra cards" interaction that can blank Mind's Eye in low-draw metas, though you lose the burst potential when multiple opponents are digging through their decks.
Price Context
Current price
$5.44 mid tier
At $5.44, Mind's Eye sits in the mid tier — cheap enough to slot into most budgets without deliberation, expensive enough that you want to be sure the deck actually benefits. It's been reprinted several times, which has kept the price honest, and there's no strong reason to expect significant movement in either direction.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.