Witching Well
Artifact
When this artifact enters, scry 2. (Look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.)
, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw two cards.
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Foundations Jumpstart
- Price
- $0.15
- EDHREC rank
- #10860
Witching Well enters, scrys 2, and then cashes out for two cards on the back half — one mana to deploy, three mana to draw, and it replaces itself cleanly either way. Mm'menon, the Right Hand pushes it over the top, turning that cheap artifact entry into a triggered engine piece before you ever activate the draw.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Mm'menon, the Right Hand
Mm'menon, the Right Hand rewards you for playing low-cost artifacts, and Witching Well is exactly the kind of one-drop that slots into the early curve, procs the commander's ability, and then converts into two cards whenever you have three mana free.
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, Witching Well is a role-player, not a staple — it belongs in artifact-matters shells and decks that want cheap noncreature spells to fuel cost-reduction or trigger effects. In Pauper, where card advantage at common is always scarce, the two-card payoff for three mana is genuinely competitive with the format's best blue cantrips. Modern and Legacy have enough cheap card selection that Witching Well rarely makes the cut outside of very specific artifact synergy lists — Thought Scour and Consider just draw you a card faster. Pioneer sits in the middle: it's legal and occasionally sees play in Ensoul Artifact-style decks that want cheap artifacts, but it's not a format fixture.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.15 bulk tier
At $0.15, Witching Well is bulk — grab a copy without a second thought. Bulk commons at this price point don't move meaningfully in either direction unless a new combo or staple-tier deck adopts them, so don't expect this to appreciate.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Mm'menon, the Right Hand
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.