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Frantic Inventory

Instant1 generic manaBlue mana

The reward for stapling four copies to your library at all costs. A single copy cantrips for one, unremarkable and priced to match; the second, third, and fourth are where the design gets clever, because each one already burned into the graveyard turns the next into a bigger dig. The card scales off its own copies rather than off any other resource, which means the thing that pays you is you: run the full set, cycle them freely in the early turns, and the late-game draws crescendo from one card to two, three, four. That structure quietly reshapes the deckbuilding math, because these are not four independent slots but a single escalating engine that wants to be depleted in order. It sits among the cheap blue instants that reward graveyard-filling and spell-count payoffs, doing double duty as smoothing early and card advantage late without asking for a build-around beyond "play all of them." The most underrated part is the instant speed: holding one up costs nothing and lets you fire it whenever the escalation lines up best, the low-commitment flexibility a self-referential draw spell needs to justify the slots it demands.

Frantic Inventory (m21)
M21 · #50common
Pricing
Normal: $0.22
Foil: $0.35
Oracle Text

Rules text

Draw a card, then draw cards equal to the number of cards named Frantic Inventory in your graveyard.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
Legal
Brawl
Legal
Historic
Legal
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
Legal
Standard Brawl
N/A
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Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
Legal
Oathbreaker
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Gladiator
Legal
Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
Legal
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