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Tamiyo's Journal

Legendary Artifact — Book

At the beginning of your upkeep, investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")
{T}, Sacrifice three Clues: Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.

CMC
5
Mana cost
{5}
Color identity
C
Rarity
rare
Set
Shadows over Innistrad Remastered
Price
—
EDHREC rank
#2454
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Tamiyo's Journal card art
Tamiyo's Journal generates a Clue token every upkeep and cashes three of them to tutor any card directly to hand — a repeating engine and an unconditional tutor stapled together. The five-mana entry cost is real, but decks built around Clue production, like those helmed by Jenny Flint // Madame Vastra, recoup that tempo immediately and treat the tutor as almost incidental upside. Outside dedicated token-and-sacrifice shells, it's slow; inside them, it closes games.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Jenny FlintMadame Vastra

Jenny Flint // Madame Vastra

58.9% of decks · synergy 0.58

Jenny Flint // Madame Vastra runs Tamiyo's Journal because every creature that dies to her investigation trigger accelerates the three-Clue tutor, turning the Journal from a slow engine into a same-turn win-condition finder. With 59% inclusion across her decks, it's one of the clearest slam-dunks in the archetype.

02
Lonis, Cryptozoologist

Lonis, Cryptozoologist

58.1% of decks · synergy 0.56

Lonis, Cryptozoologist floods the board with Clues whenever a nontoken creature enters, so Tamiyo's Journal's upkeep trigger is nearly redundant — and the tutor fires on almost any combat step. It appears in 58% of Lonis builds precisely because the Clue count required to cash it in is trivially reached.

03
Morska, Undersea Sleuth

Morska, Undersea Sleuth

56.0% of decks · synergy 0.53

Morska, Undersea Sleuth rewards investigating repeatedly, meaning Tamiyo's Journal's upkeep trigger stacks directly onto the commander's native Clue production. At 56% inclusion, it's a core piece of the deck's ability to find whatever missing combo piece or threat it needs.

04
Inquisitor Greyfax

Inquisitor Greyfax

48.6% of decks · synergy 0.47

Inquisitor Greyfax generates Clue tokens through her surveillance and investigation triggers, and Tamiyo's Journal converts that steady accumulation into a guaranteed tutor line. Nearly half of Greyfax decks run it as a reliable way to fetch a finisher or key enabler.

05
Teysa, Opulent Oligarch

Teysa, Opulent Oligarch

45.3% of decks · synergy 0.45

Teysa, Opulent Oligarch produces Clues and Treasures off creature deaths, giving Tamiyo's Journal a constant stream of fuel from the graveyard value the deck already wants. The 45% inclusion rate reflects how naturally the sacrifice triggers feed the three-Clue threshold.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Tamiyo's Journal is a Commander card — full stop. The Clue-a-turn clock and expensive tutor are calibrated for 40-life multiplayer games where five mana for a noncreature permanent is acceptable and a no-restriction tutor is worth building toward. In Legacy, Modern, and Pioneer it's legal but irrelevant: five mana for an artifact that doesn't immediately impact the board or win the game is not competitive in any of those formats, where even slower tutors like Grim Tutor see little play. Oathbreaker is the one non-Commander format where it could plausibly see fringe use in a Clue-based shell, but the card pool and game speed still work against it.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

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Current pricing data for Tamiyo's Journal isn't available in our feed, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for the live number. Given its narrow competitive home and Commander-specific role, it has historically sat in the budget-to-low-midrange range — worth picking up if you're building a Clue-based commander deck, but not a staple that commands a premium outside that context.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.