You Find Some Prisoners
Instant
Choose one —
• Break Their Chains — Destroy target artifact.
• Interrogate Them — Exile the top three cards of target opponent's library. Choose one of them. Until the end of your next turn, you may play that card, and you may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast it.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Secret Lair Drop
- Price
- $0.90
- EDHREC rank
- #4252
You Find Some Prisoners hits the board as a three-mana sorcery that exiles the top three cards of an opponent's library and lets you cast one of them for free — generating both card advantage and a Treasure token through Prosper, Tome-Bound's trigger. The cost is low and the upside is real; this belongs in any deck built around exile-cast effects.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Prosper, Tome-Bound
You Find Some Prisoners is a near-staple in Prosper, Tome-Bound decks because every free cast off exile triggers Prosper's Treasure-generation, turning a single spell into a mana accelerant plus whatever you cast off the top.
Don Andres, the Renegade
Don Andres, the Renegade rewards playing cards from exile and producing Treasures, so You Find Some Prisoners feeds both halves of that engine in one shot.
Pia Nalaar, Consul of Revival
Pia Nalaar, Consul of Revival cares about artifacts and artifact tokens, and You Find Some Prisoners reliably produces a Treasure while potentially exiling an opponent's artifact worth casting for free.
Nathan Drake, Treasure Hunter
Nathan Drake, Treasure Hunter scales with Treasure production and exile-cast synergies, making You Find Some Prisoners a clean two-for-one that advances both axes of the deck.
Faldorn, Dread Wolf Herald
Faldorn, Dread Wolf Herald creates a Wolf whenever a spell is cast from exile or a card is played from outside hand, so You Find Some Prisoners both stocks the exile zone and triggers Faldorn immediately on the free cast.
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 |
Commander is where You Find Some Prisoners does its best work — exile-cast commanders are numerous in the format, and the combination of disruption, card selection, and Treasure production at three mana punches well above its weight in a 100-card singleton context. In Modern and Pioneer, You Find Some Prisoners is legal but too slow and too low-impact for a competitive metagame that punishes sorcery-speed three-drops that don't close games or answer immediate threats. Legacy and Vintage have the same problem amplified; the card simply isn't powerful enough for those formats' baseline. Oathbreaker is the other home worth mentioning — any planeswalker that cares about exile-cast effects or artifacts converts this into a value piece efficiently.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.90 bulk tier
At $0.90, You Find Some Prisoners sits firmly in bulk rare territory and is an easy inclusion for Treasure and exile-cast decks that don't want to break the bank. The price is unlikely to spike given the card's narrow archetype fit, but at under a dollar the ask is trivial for the decks that actually want it.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.