Touchstone
Artifact
: Tap target artifact you don't control.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Weatherlight
- Price
- $0.16
- EDHREC rank
- #28492
Touchstone taps to give target creature -1/-0 until end of turn — a negligible stat reduction that requires both mana and the card's entire turn to deploy. It's a bulk rare in every meaningful sense, and there's no competitive shell where this effect justifies a deck slot.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Touchstone is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but legality and playability are different things. In Commander, a repeatable tap effect needs to shift games — Touchstone's -1/-0 does not block, does not kill, and does not meaningfully shrink anything that threatens a 40-life table. Legacy and Vintage have no use for it either; those formats demand efficiency measured in fractions of mana, and Touchstone doesn't clear that bar. It exists, technically, in four formats — it matters in none of them.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.16 bulk tier
At $0.16, Touchstone is deep bulk — the kind of card that fills a draft chaff box and never leaves it. That price reflects accurate market demand, and there's no meaningful upward pressure on the horizon.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.