Tome Scour
Sorcery
Target player mills five cards.
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Magic 2010
- Price
- $0.34
- EDHREC rank
- #11663
Tome Scour mills five cards for one mana — cheap enough to be a ritual in dedicated mill strategies, irrelevant everywhere else. With Bruvac the Grandiloquent on the battlefield, that five becomes ten, and the math on winning through the library gets brutally fast.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Bruvac the Grandiloquent
Bruvac the Grandiloquent doubles every mill trigger, so Tome Scour's five cards become ten for one blue mana — the raw efficiency is hard to argue with, and it stacks with every other mill piece in the 99.
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 |
In Commander, Tome Scour is a one-trick card: it belongs in mill decks and nowhere else, since five cards barely dents a 100-card library without a doubling effect or a dozen copies of the same effect. In Pauper, dedicated mill is a real archetype and Tome Scour earns a slot as cheap, redundant fuel. Legacy and Vintage have access to more efficient mill payoffs, so Tome Scour doesn't see competitive play there. Pioneer and Modern mill strategies lean on more powerful options, but budget builds can reach for it as a placeholder.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.34 bulk tier
At $0.34, Tome Scour is deep bulk — you'll find it in a common box before you'd ever order it. It won't hold or gain value, but that's beside the point: if you're building Bruvac the Grandiloquent on a tight budget, the price is simply not a barrier.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.