Search Warrant
Sorcery
Target player reveals their hand. You gain life equal to the number of cards in that player's hand.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- UW
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Return to Ravnica
- Price
- $0.15
- EDHREC rank
- #18483
Search Warrant lets you look at target player's hand and they draw a card — net effect is a cantrip that doubles as an information spell. At one mana in white-blue, it replaces itself and tells you exactly what's coming, which is the whole reason to run it.
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, Search Warrant earns its slot in decks that care about information — knowing what three opponents are holding before you tap out or counter anything is genuinely useful, and the cantrip means you're not down a card. In Pauper, it's a one-mana blue cantrip with upside, and commons with that profile see fringe play in control shells. In Legacy, Modern, and Pioneer the competition for one-mana cantrips is brutal — Brainstorm, Opt, and Consider do more in those formats, and Search Warrant gets left behind. Vintage is the same story: too fair for a format defined by broken draw.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.15 bulk tier
At $0.15, Search Warrant is deep bulk — pick it up without thinking if the effect fits your build. Bulk commons with cantrip text stay in this range indefinitely; there's no meaningful price floor to fall through.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.