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Wan Shi Tong, All-Knowing

Legendary Creature — Bird Spirit

Flying
When Wan Shi Tong enters, target nonland permanent's owner puts it into their library second from the top or on the bottom.
Whenever one or more cards are put into a library from anywhere, create two 1/1 colorless Spirit creature tokens with "This token can't block or be blocked by non-Spirit creatures."

CMC
5
Mana cost
{3}{U}{U}
Color identity
U
Rarity
mythic
Set
Avatar: The Last Airbender Eternal
Price
$1.05
EDHREC rank
#15077
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Wan Shi Tong, All-Knowing card art
Wan Shi Tong, All-Knowing turns every card draw into a scry, which means a Sensei's Divining Top becomes a repeatable top-deck sculpting engine on every draw step. The cost is a five-mana legendary with no immediate board impact — you're paying up front for compounding advantage, and it dies to any removal before it pays off. Y'shtola Rhul decks are the clearest home, but any blue deck that draws multiple cards per turn wants this effect.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Y'shtola Rhul

Y'shtola Rhul

11.0% of decks · synergy 0.10

Y'shtola Rhul's triggered abilities care about drawing cards, and Wan Shi Tong, All-Knowing converts every one of those draw triggers into a scry, letting you filter aggressively while the engine is running. The two cards reward the same behavior — drawing a lot — so they compound rather than just coexist.

02
River Song

River Song

8.8% of decks · synergy 0.09

River Song's spoiler mechanic puts cards onto the top of your library, and Wan Shi Tong, All-Knowing gives you a scry to move bad top-decks out of the way before River Song can strand them in hand. The two cards address the same axis from opposite directions: one controls what goes on top, the other filters what's already there.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern not legal
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Commander is the format Wan Shi Tong, All-Knowing was built for — long games where cumulative card quality matters more than raw speed, and where drawing multiple cards per turn is a baseline expectation in blue. In Legacy and Vintage, where it's technically legal, five mana buys you something that wins the game outright, not a draw-filter that needs setup; Wan Shi Tong has no competitive presence in either format. Oathbreaker is a reasonable home for the same reasons as Commander — the card rewards exactly the kind of value-engine gameplay that slower 20-life formats support.

Key Combos

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Price Context

Current price

$1.05 cheap tier

At $1.05, Wan Shi Tong, All-Knowing is a cheap pickup for the effect it provides — a repeatable scry stapled to every draw is genuinely rare at this price point. Demand is steady but not spiking, so expect it to stay in the $1–2 range unless a high-profile deck pushes visibility.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.