Psychotic Episode
Sorcery
Target player reveals their hand and the top card of their library. You choose a card revealed this way. That player puts the chosen card on the bottom of their library.
Madness 
(If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Time Spiral Remastered
- Price
- $0.06
- EDHREC rank
- #16254
Psychotic Episode strips a card from the opponent's hand and buries another on the bottom of their library — all while costing three mana at sorcery speed. It earns its slot almost exclusively in Anje Falkenrath decks, where the madness cost of two drops it to a functional one-mana effect.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Anje Falkenrath
Anje Falkenrath turns Psychotic Episode into one of the cheapest discard payoffs in the format — pitch it for two, activate Anje's untap trigger, and you've disrupted an opponent's hand and drawn a card for effectively zero net mana.
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, Psychotic Episode is a niche role-player rather than a staple — it belongs in madness-centric builds that can consistently trigger the alternate cost, and nowhere else. In Pauper, three-mana sorcery-speed discard competes poorly against more efficient options, so it sees essentially no play there either. Legacy and Vintage have access to far more powerful discard and hand disruption at one or two mana, leaving Psychotic Episode on the shelf in both formats. Oathbreaker mirrors the Commander calculus: if your planeswalker enables madness, it's worth a look; otherwise, skip it.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.06 bulk tier
At $0.06, Psychotic Episode is deep bulk — you'll find it in a common box before you'd bother ordering a copy. Its price reflects real demand: narrow enough that only dedicated Anje Falkenrath brewers reach for it, which keeps supply perpetually ahead of need.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.