Frantic Search card art

Frantic Search

Instant MV 3

Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.

What it does

Draw two cards, then discard two cards. Untap up to three lands.

Combos with Frantic Search

Lines this card is part of — what it needs alongside it, and what the two of them do. An infinite result is the one that moves a deck's bracket.

  • Primal Amulet // Primal Wellspring Narset's Reversal Infinite
    • Infinite draw triggers
    • Infinite looting
    • Near-infinite magecraft triggers
    • Near-infinite mana lands you control can produce
    • Near-infinite storm count
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Swarm Intelligence Narset's Reversal Infinite
    • Infinite draw triggers
    • Infinite looting
    • Near-infinite magecraft triggers
    • Near-infinite mana lands you control can produce
    • Near-infinite storm count
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Fire Lord Azula Narset's Reversal Infinite
    • Infinite self-discard triggers
    • Infinite draw triggers
    • Infinite looting
    • Near-infinite storm count
    • Near-infinite mana lands you control can produce
    • Near-infinite magecraft triggers
    • Near-infinite untap of lands you control
    • Near-infinite blue mana
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Underworld Breach Bonus Round Infinite
    • Infinite draw triggers
    • Infinite looting
    • Infinite self-discard triggers
    • Near-infinite magecraft triggers
    • Near-infinite mana lands you control can produce
    • Near-infinite untap of lands you control
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Underworld Breach Thousand-Year Storm Infinite
    • Infinite draw triggers
    • Infinite looting
    • Infinite self-discard triggers
    • Near-infinite magecraft triggers
    • Near-infinite mana lands you control can produce
    • Near-infinite untap of lands you control
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Underworld Breach Dragon's Rage Channeler Infinite
    • Near-infinite looting
    • Near-infinite magecraft triggers
    • Near-infinite self-discard triggers
    • Near-infinite self-mill
    • Near-infinite storm count
    • Near-infinite surveil
    • Near-infinite draw triggers
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Underworld Breach Mesmeric Orb Infinite
    • Near-infinite draw triggers
    • Near-infinite looting
    • Near-infinite magecraft triggers
    • Near-infinite self-discard triggers
    • Near-infinite self-mill
    • Near-infinite storm count
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Fire Lord Azula Underworld Breach Infinite
    • Infinite draw triggers
    • Infinite looting
    • Infinite self-discard triggers
    • Near-infinite magecraft triggers
    • Near-infinite mana lands you control can produce
    • Near-infinite storm count
    • Near-infinite untap of lands you control
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →

Showing the 8 shortest and most explosive. This card appears in more than these — follow any of them through to Commander Spellbook to browse the rest.

Combo data from Commander Spellbook, the community-maintained database of Magic combos. Mirrored nightly.

Rulings

2 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.

  • 2018-12-07

    You draw two cards and discard two cards all while Frantic Search is resolving. Nothing can happen between the two, and no player may choose to take actions.

  • 2022-12-08

    You choose which lands to untap as the spell resolves. They aren't targeted, and they don't have to be lands that you control.

Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.

In the 99

Every deck whose current list includes Frantic Search, whatever its commander.

Decks running it 10
Games played 13
Win rate 46.2%
Confirmed on board 0 Games where a board photo caught it actually in play.

Colors it shows up in

  • Izzet 5 decks
  • Mono-Blue 2 decks
  • Esper 1 deck
  • Five-Color 1 deck

Every version of Frantic Search

17 printings, newest first. Prices are the market figures Scryfall publishes, refreshed nightly — a printing with no figure shows a dash rather than a zero, because Scryfall genuinely publishes none for some of them.

Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Frantic Search — a name search across every version, for the printings TCGplayer publishes no direct link to.

Aggregated from Commander games tracked in TurnZero HQ. Every figure counts decks and games only — no individual deck list, player or playgroup is identified. Win rates are withheld below 5 completed games, where the sample is too small to mean anything.