Lifecrafter's Bestiary card art

Lifecrafter's Bestiary

Artifact MV 3

Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.

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What it doesRulingsIn the 99Every version

What it does

At the beginning of your upkeep, scry 1.

Whenever you cast a creature spell, you may pay . If you do, draw a card.

Rulings

3 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.

  • 2017-02-09

    The draw step is after the upkeep step, so you'll scry 1 before you draw for the turn.

  • 2017-02-09

    Lifecrafter's Bestiary's second triggered ability resolves before the spell that caused it to trigger. The ability will resolve even if that spell is countered.

  • 2017-02-09

    While resolving Lifecrafter's Bestiary's second triggered ability, you can't pay multiple times to draw multiple cards.

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

In the 99

Every deck whose current list includes Lifecrafter's Bestiary, whatever its commander.

Decks running it 3
Games played 0
Win rate — Fewer than 5 completed games — not enough to publish a rate yet.
Confirmed on board 0 Games where a board photo caught it actually in play.

Most played under

Commander Decks Games Win rate
Henzie "Toolbox" Torre 1 0 —
Zimone, Mystery Unraveler 1 0 —

Colors it shows up in

  • Jund 1 deck
  • Simic 1 deck

Every version of Lifecrafter's Bestiary

9 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 Lifecrafter's Bestiary — 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.