Petals of Insight
Sorcery — Arcane
Look at the top three cards of your library. You may put those cards on the bottom of your library in any order. If you do, return Petals of Insight to its owner's hand. Otherwise, draw three cards.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Champions of Kamigawa
- Price
- $0.10
- EDHREC rank
- #22153
Petals of Insight lets you see three cards and either put them back in any order to sculpt your next draws or pay again to keep digging — a repeatable scry-and-draw engine disguised as a sorcery. The cost is real: five mana to cast plus more blue mana every loop, which means it only earns its slot in decks that generate enough mana or spell-cast triggers to make that cost trivial, with Ovika, Enigma Goliath being the clearest example of a commander that turns each recasting into a token army.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Petals of Insight is a combo piece first and a value spell second — the ability to recast it indefinitely with enough mana turns it into a draw-your-deck line or a way to arrange your entire library before a kill. Pauper is where it quietly overperforms outside Commander, since the common card pool lacks the busted cantrips of other formats and a repeatable library-sorting effect has real legs in slower blue builds. Legacy and Vintage have no interest in a five-mana sorcery when one-mana cantrips dominate, so Petals of Insight is firmly a bulk-bin card in both. Oathbreaker mirrors the Commander case — if your planeswalker generates mana or cares about spell count, the loop is live.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card



Ovika, Enigma GoliathPetals of InsightSorcerer Class
Infinite damage; Infinite death triggers; Infinite ETB; Infinite LTB; Infinite magecraft triggers; Infinite sacrifice triggers; Infinite storm count; Infinite tapped creature tokens
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Petals of InsightStorm-Kiln ArtistMindsplice Apparatus
Infinite magecraft triggers; Infinite storm count
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Magnus the RedPetals of InsightStorm-Kiln Artist
Infinite magecraft triggers; Infinite storm count
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Mizzix of the IzmagnusPetals of InsightStorm-Kiln Artist
Infinite magecraft triggers; Infinite storm count
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Vadrik, Astral ArchmagePetals of InsightStorm-Kiln Artist
Infinite magecraft triggers; Infinite storm count
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Current price
$0.10 bulk tier
At $0.10, Petals of Insight is deep bulk — pick up as many copies as you need without a second thought. The price reflects its narrow application, and there's no pressure driving it upward, so it stays a throwaway inclusion for anyone building around its combo lines.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Ovika, Enigma Goliath
- Sorcerer Class
- Storm-Kiln Artist
- Mindsplice Apparatus
- Magnus the Red
- Mizzix of the Izmagnus
- Vadrik, Astral Archmage
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.