Tome Shredder
Creature — Wolf
Haste
, Exile an instant or sorcery card from your graveyard: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Strixhaven: School of Mages
- Price
- $0.08
- EDHREC rank
- #24525
Tome Shredder is a one-mana 1/1 that grows every time an instant or sorcery hits a graveyard — yours or anyone else's — making it a surprisingly threatening clock in spell-heavy pods. The cost is fragility: it's a 1/1 with no built-in protection, so it needs a turn of survival to matter.
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 Shredder scales with the table — every Swords to Plowshares, Counterspell, or Cultivate from any opponent adds a counter, so its ceiling in a four-player game is genuinely high. In Pauper it's a legitimate threat in Kiln Fiend-style tempo decks, where the common slot is tight and a one-mana body that rewards spell-slinging earns its keep. Modern and Legacy have faster clocks and more efficient threats at one mana, so Tome Shredder sits on the outside looking in unless you're building around a very specific graveyard-filling angle. Pioneer sits similarly — playable in theory, outclassed in practice.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.08 bulk tier
At $0.08, Tome Shredder is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard and shipping, not the card. That price is stable; there's no pressure pushing it up, and it's the kind of card you find in a bulk bin before you'd ever order it.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.