Shared Discovery
Sorcery
As an additional cost to cast this spell, tap four untapped creatures you control.
Draw three cards.
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Rise of the Eldrazi
- Price
- $0.12
- EDHREC rank
- #19048
Shared Discovery draws four cards for one mana — the catch is you need four untapped creatures to tap as an additional cost. In Geralf, the Fleshwright and similar token-flooding commanders, that condition is trivially met, making this one of the most mana-efficient draw spells in blue.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Geralf, the Fleshwright
Geralf, the Fleshwright generates a steady stream of 2/2 Zombie tokens, which means Shared Discovery's tap-four-creatures cost is almost always free to fulfill — you're converting board presence directly into card advantage without spending additional resources.
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 |
Shared Discovery is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but the card is almost exclusively a Commander card. In Pauper it's technically castable, but the creature-flooding needed to make it live rarely exists in that format's tempo-driven games. Legacy and Vintage have access to strictly faster draw that asks nothing of the board. Commander is where Shared Discovery earns its slot — go-wide token strategies, aristocrats shells, and creature-storm decks routinely have four expendable bodies sitting idle, and drawing four at sorcery speed for one blue mana is a rate nothing else at this price point touches.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.12 bulk tier
Shared Discovery sits firmly in bulk at $0.12 — it won't appreciate, but it also won't cost you anything to slot in. Pick it up without a second thought; the value is entirely in what it does on the battlefield, not in the card itself.
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Sources
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.