Tome Blast
Sorcery
Tome Blast deals 2 damage to any target.
Flashback 
(You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Secrets of Strixhaven
- Price
- $0.07
- EDHREC rank
- #24141
Tome Blast mills a target player for the number of cards in their graveyard — a payoff that scales hard in decks already filling graves. The catch is it does nothing proactively; you need a yard stuffed before it delivers.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Tome Blast is a graveyard-synergy card that rewards patience — by mid-game, a single opponent can be sitting on 20-plus cards in the bin, making this a legitimate threat in mill-focused decks. Outside Commander, the card sees essentially no competitive play; Pioneer, Modern, and Legacy all have faster, more reliable mill packages that don't require the graveyard to already be loaded before they function. Pauper is the one format where budget mill is a real archetype, but even there Tome Blast competes poorly against cards that fill the yard and close simultaneously. It's a Commander-or-nowhere card.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.07 bulk tier
At $0.07, Tome Blast is deep bulk — you're paying almost nothing for the effect. Bulk commons at this price point don't appreciate unless they break into a competitive archetype, and nothing about Tome Blast's design suggests that's coming.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.