Thoughtcast
The Brothers' War Commander 99 • common
- Set
- The Brothers' War Commander
- Collector number
- 99
- Rarity
- Common
- Mana cost
- 4 generic mana blue mana
- Type
- Sorcery
- Colors
- Blue
- Artist
- Greg Hildebrandt
- Market price
- $3.22
What it does
Affinity for artifacts (This spell costs 1 generic mana less to cast for each artifact you control.)
Draw two cards.
Vedalken eyes don't see the beauty in things. They see only what those things can teach.
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperLegal
- BrawlLegal
- HistoricLegal
- TimelessLegal
- Penny DreadfulNot legal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Thoughtcast originated in the 2003 expansion Mirrodin, where it was designed to reward players for filling the battlefield with low-cost artifact cards. The card represents the expansive, metal-clad world of Mirrodin, drawing on the set's core mechanical identity of artifact synergy. Its inclusion in The Brothers' War Commander set as card number 99 serves as a reprint, reintroducing a classic utility spell into the modern Commander format to support artifact-centric strategies.
The original illustration for Thoughtcast, created by Greg Staples, captures the intellectual intensity of an Vedalken magus tapping into the collective knowledge of the plane. Staples employed a clean, focused aesthetic to convey the card's function of digging through one's library for new resources. The design remains a staple in blue-aligned artifact decks due to its efficiency and the clarity of its role in facilitating card advantage.
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