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Arcane Encyclopedia
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
Core Set 2019M19 · #227
- Card type
- Artifact — Book
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Indicative price
- 0.12 € · ★ 0.50 € · 0.18 $ · ★ 0.58 $
- Mana value
- 3
- Colour
- Colourless
Card text
, : Draw a card.
Format legality
- BrawlLegal
- CommanderLegal
- CompetitivebrawlLegal
- DuelLegal
- GladiatorLegal
- HistoricLegal
- LegacyLegal
- ModernLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- PennyLegal
- PioneerLegal
- TimelessLegal
- VintageLegal
Legalities follow the imported catalogue; check format rules before a tournament.
Data imported on 2026-10-06 (UTC).
Indicative Scryfall prices, updated daily. ★: foil; ★ E: etched foil. EUR and USD represent different markets.
Printing information
- Illustrator
- Nic Klein
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 2018-07-13
Flavour text
Knowledge itself is neither good nor evil. Just as the wrong book in the wrong hands could doom all existence, the same book in the right hands could save it.
