Well of Discovery
Artifact
At the beginning of your end step, if you control no untapped lands, draw a card.
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Prophecy
- Price
- $0.43
- EDHREC rank
- #26047
Well of Discovery lets you draw a card whenever you pay life to cast a spell, turning every Phyrexian-mana activation or life-payment into card advantage at no extra mana cost. The four-mana entry and artifact subtype make it a clean include in any deck that regularly spends life — not a fringe pickup, a staple for that archetype.
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 |
Well of Discovery is a Commander card through and through — the format's density of Phyrexian mana, pain lands, and lifelinking synergies gives it a reliable trigger engine that 60-card formats rarely assemble. Legacy and Vintage are legal but uninterested; neither format builds around consistent life payments the way EDH does, and the four-mana setup cost is a dealbreaker in those environments. In Oathbreaker, the same logic applies as Commander: it rewards life-payment themes and slots cleanly into Phyrexian-mana-heavy signatures.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.43 bulk tier
At $0.43, Well of Discovery is deep bulk — you're picking it out of a dollar box, not hunting a buylist. Bulk artifacts with narrow synergy homes tend to stay in this range indefinitely, so there's no urgency either way.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.