Tezzeret's Ambition
Sorcery
Draw three cards. If you control no artifacts, discard a card.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Kaladesh
- Price
- $0.03
- EDHREC rank
- #22713
Tezzeret's Ambition draws two cards and scrys 2 on top of that — but five mana at sorcery speed is a steep ask when Concentrate does the same draw for four and Blue Sun's Zenith scales harder. Run it only in artifact-matters decks where the artifact type on the card itself does work, and even then it's a budget concession, not a first choice.
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 |
Tezzeret's Ambition is legal across Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Pauper, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but the only format where it sees any real play is Pauper, where common-restricted card draw is scarce enough that five mana for draw-two-scry-two clears the bar. In Commander it competes against a deep pool of efficient draw spells at every price point, and five mana sorcery-speed draw-two rarely makes the cut outside of extreme budget builds or artifact-synergy commanders who care about the card type. In Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, and Vintage the card is unplayable on rate — formats that fast don't tolerate this kind of inefficiency.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.03 bulk tier
At $0.03, Tezzeret's Ambition is pure bulk — you're not buying it, you're finding it in a common box. That price is a ceiling, not a floor; there's no demand pressure that would push it higher.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.