Sami's Curiosity
Sorcery
You gain 2 life. Create a Lander token. (It's an artifact with "
, 
, Sacrifice this token: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.")
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Edge of Eternities
- Price
- $0.11
- EDHREC rank
- #12764
Sami's Curiosity turns each spell your commander casts into a free loot — draw a card, discard a card — which is a real sustained advantage engine stapled to a one-mana enchantment. The cost is negligible; the only question is whether your commander casts spells frequently enough to make it worth the slot.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Sami's Curiosity rewards commanders who cast spells repeatedly — spellslinger, storm-adjacent, or any general you're recasting from the command zone multiple times — turning what would otherwise be dead zones between turns into incremental card selection. Outside Commander, the card is legal across every major format but hasn't made noise in any of them; competitive constructed wants draw engines that don't require your commander or a specific creature to be in play. Pauper is the one non-Commander format worth watching, where cheap enchantments that generate value off spell-casting see the most play, though Sami's Curiosity still needs the right shell to justify inclusion.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.11 bulk tier
At $0.11, Sami's Curiosity sits firmly in bulk territory — it costs less than a sleeve and there's no financial risk to picking up a copy. Bulk rares and uncommons with narrow commander applications rarely climb in price, so treat this as a cheap pickup for the right deck rather than a hold.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.