Urza's Tome
Artifact — Book
, 
: Draw a card. Then discard a card unless you exile a historic card from your graveyard. (Artifacts, legendaries, and Sagas are historic.)
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Dominaria
- Price
- $0.19
- EDHREC rank
- #22099
Urza's Tome gives you a repeatable loot effect — draw a card, discard a card — for two mana each activation, which is slow and card-neutral at best. The bar for colorless draw in Commander is Sol Ring and Skullclamp, and Urza's Tome clears neither.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Urza's Tome is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but that breadth is mostly academic — competitive shells in those formats have no reason to run a two-mana loot on a three-mana artifact when cantrips and cheaper looting effects exist. In Commander, it's technically playable in decks that care about the discard effect, like Madness or Reanimator builds that want specific cards in the graveyard, but even there better options exist. Urza's Tome lands at the bottom of the consideration pile in every format it's legal in.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.19 bulk tier
At $0.19, Urza's Tome is deep bulk — you're not paying for power, you're paying for cardboard. It won't hold or gain value, and the only reason to acquire one is if a specific janky discard-synergy deck genuinely can't find a better slot-filler.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.