Tablet of Discovery
Artifact
When this artifact enters, mill a card. You may play that card this turn. (To mill a card, put the top card of your library into your graveyard.)
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.: Add . Spend this mana only to cast instant and sorcery spells.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Secrets of Strixhaven
- Price
- $0.47
- EDHREC rank
- #9115
Tablet of Discovery draws you a card and lets you discard one every turn — that's a free loot stapled to an artifact that costs four mana to land. In spell-slinger decks helmed by Lorehold, the Historian, that sustained card filtering is exactly what keeps the engine from stalling out.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Lorehold, the Historian
Lorehold, the Historian triggers off instants and sorceries, so the steady looting from Tablet of Discovery feeds both the graveyard and the hand simultaneously — every discard is a potential recursion target. At 35% inclusion, it's a near-staple in Lorehold lists.
Imodane, the Pyrohammer
Imodane, the Pyrohammer wants a full grip of burn spells every turn, and Tablet of Discovery ensures you're cycling through the deck rather than emptying your hand and stalling. The looting also lets you ditch dead cards in matchups where specific removal isn't relevant.
Rootha, Mastering the Moment
Rootha, Mastering the Moment copies instants and sorceries, which means card filtering is fuel — Tablet of Discovery keeps the spell count high enough to copy something meaningful each turn. Running it in 30% of Rootha decks reflects how reliably it supports the copy engine.
Ashling, Flame Dancer
Ashling, Flame Dancer rewards casting instants and sorceries with +1/+1 counters and damage triggers, so having more spells in hand matters; Tablet of Discovery provides consistent filtering to find them. It shows up in roughly 26% of Ashling lists for that reason.
Rionya, Fire Dancer
Rionya, Fire Dancer creates token copies of creatures at the end of combat based on how many instants and sorceries you cast, making hand quality critical — Tablet of Discovery smooths out draws and lets you pitch bricks to find the spells that spike Rionya's trigger count.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Tablet of Discovery is legal across Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Standard, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but it only truly earns a slot in Commander. In sixty-card competitive formats, four mana for a tap-to-loot effect is far too slow — there are cantrips, Faithless Looting variants, and dedicated draw spells that do more for less at instant speed. Commander is where the math changes: games go long, artifact synergies are plentiful, and a repeatable loot trigger every turn compounds over ten or fifteen turns in ways it simply can't in a forty-minute Legacy match. In Oathbreaker it's playable if your signature spell is cheap enough to keep the game moving, but the 60-card singleton constraint makes it harder to justify over faster options.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.47 bulk tier
At $0.47, Tablet of Discovery sits firmly in bulk territory — it's a throw-in card, not a chase card, and there's no meaningful price floor to protect. Bulk artifacts at this price point rarely climb without a reprint ban or a spike in one dominant archetype, so buy it for the effect and don't expect the copy to appreciate.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.