Moment of Truth
Instant
Look at the top three cards of your library. Put one of those cards into your hand, one into your graveyard, and one on the bottom of your library.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- March of the Machine
- Price
- $0.25
- EDHREC rank
- #12075
Moment of Truth is a two-mana instant that digs two cards deep and puts one in the graveyard — net card-neutral, but with meaningful selection and a built-in yard payoff. River Song decks run it as a first-pick include because the discard is a feature, not a cost.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
River Song
River Song rewards you for casting spells in non-linear order, and Moment of Truth feeds that engine while stocking the graveyard for flashback or recursion targets — it's doing two jobs at once.
Octavia, Living Thesis
Octavia, Living Thesis cares about instant and sorcery count in the graveyard, and Moment of Truth contributes to that threshold while filtering your hand toward the spells that close the game.
Zethi, Arcane Blademaster
Zethi, Arcane Blademaster imprints cheap instants and sorceries to recur, making Moment of Truth a value engine that pays dividends every time Zethi attacks.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Moment of Truth is a solid role-player in any blue deck that wants graveyard density or spell-count thresholds — not a staple, but never a liability. In Pauper, where card selection at common is genuinely scarce, it competes respectably with the format's other two-mana cantrips and sees real play in control and combo shells. Modern and Legacy have enough redundancy in the Brainstorm and Opt family that Moment of Truth rarely makes the cut outside very specific graveyard-synergy strategies. Pioneer sits in the middle — playable if you need the mill effect, but usually outclassed by format-legal alternatives.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.25 bulk tier
At $0.25, Moment of Truth is firmly bulk — buy a playset without thinking about it. Bulk commons with narrow but real synergy applications tend to stay in this range indefinitely, so there's no urgency beyond just picking it up when you need it.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.