Mindstorm Crown
Artifact
At the beginning of your upkeep, draw a card if you had no cards in hand at the beginning of this turn. If you had a card in hand, this artifact deals 1 damage to you.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Mirrodin
- Price
- $0.17
- EDHREC rank
- #22285
Mindstorm Crown draws you a card each upkeep you have no cards in hand — a zero-setup payoff for hellbent and discard-matters strategies. The ceiling is real, but in any deck that isn't deliberately emptying its hand, it's a blank artifact that costs two to equip.
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 |
Mindstorm Crown is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but it sees effectively zero competitive play in the non-rotating 60-card formats — those formats have access to far more efficient draw engines that don't require you to be hellbent. Commander is its natural home, where the slower pace gives hellbent and discard-matters strategies room to operate and the one-card-per-turn restriction hurts less across a longer game. In Oathbreaker it follows the same logic as Commander: narrow synergy required, negligible outside dedicated empty-hand shells.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.17 bulk tier
At $0.17, Mindstorm Crown is deep bulk — easy to pick up as a throw-in or from a bulk bin. The price reflects the card's narrow application; it won't appreciate unless a pushed hellbent commander spikes demand, which hasn't happened yet.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.