Spellbook
Artifact — Book
You have no maximum hand size.
- CMC
- 0
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Seventh Edition
- Price
- $3.52
- EDHREC rank
- #1973
Spellbook's entire value proposition is one line: no maximum hand size, for zero mana and zero ongoing cost. It's an artifact that sits in play and does its job forever, which makes Cavalier of Dawn's destruction look like a fine trade and Fblthp, Lost on the Range's draw-heavy engine look even better.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Fblthp, Lost on the Range
Fblthp, Lost on the Range draws cards off the top repeatedly, and Spellbook ensures none of those cards get pitched to a seven-card cap at end of turn — the two pieces are functionally inseparable in that shell.
Jhoira, Weatherlight Captain
Jhoira, Weatherlight Captain draws a card every time you cast a historic spell, and in an artifact-storm deck that number climbs fast; Spellbook lets Jhoira decks bank every card drawn without discarding down before the kill.
Sergeant John Benton
Sergeant John Benton rewards playing noncreature spells and tends to flood the hand with value; Spellbook keeps that grip intact turn after turn without asking for any additional investment.
Meria, Scholar of Antiquity
Meria, Scholar of Antiquity taps artifacts for mana and card advantage, and Spellbook slots in as one of the cheapest artifacts to have on board — it enables Meria's tap ability while solving any hand-size overflow the engine creates.
Kami of the Crescent Moon
Kami of the Crescent Moon draws extra cards for both players every upkeep, and Spellbook ensures those extra cards accumulate rather than vanish at cleanup — a natural pairing for any deck built around Kami's symmetrical draw.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Spellbook does its best work: long games, high card counts, and draw-heavy commanders make the hand-size relief genuinely meaningful rather than theoretical. In Legacy and Vintage it's legal but practically invisible — Reliquary Tower and Library of Alexandria occupy that space, and those formats rarely care about incremental hand advantage at zero cost. Oathbreaker mirrors Commander's long-game logic closely enough that Spellbook earns consideration in any signature spell that draws multiple cards. Outside those slower, multiplayer contexts, Spellbook has no competitive footprint.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Cavalier of DawnInfinite ReflectionMarch of the MachinesSpellbook
Infinite creature tokens; Infinite death triggers; Infinite ETB; Infinite LTB; Infinite storm count
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Emry, Lurker of the LochJeskai AscendancyBarrage OgreSpellbook
Infinite damage; Infinite looting; Infinitely large creatures you control until end of turn; Infinite storm count; Infinite untap of creatures you control; Infinite mana creatures you control can produce
View on Commander Spellbook ↗Price Context
Current price
$3.52 cheap tier
At $3.52, Spellbook sits in cheap territory for a card with a unique, unconditional effect on an artifact type that's easy to tutor. It's a stable price — no rotation risk, perennial casual demand, and no realistic reprint pressure that would crater it.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.