Sorcerous Spyglass card art

Sorcerous Spyglass

Artifact MV 2

Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.

What it does

As this artifact enters, look at an opponent's hand, then choose any card name.

Activated abilities of sources with the chosen name can't be activated unless they're mana abilities.

Combos with Sorcerous Spyglass

The lines this card is part of, what it needs alongside it, and what the cards do together. An infinite result is the one that moves a deck's bracket.

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

Rulings

5 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.

  • 2021-03-19

    Sorcerous Spyglass affects cards regardless of what zone they're in. This includes cards in hand, cards in the graveyard, and exiled cards.

  • 2021-03-19

    An activated mana ability is one that produces mana as it resolves, not one that costs mana to activate.

  • 2021-03-19

    You can't choose the name of a token unless that token has the same name as a card.

  • 2021-03-19

    You can choose any card name, even if that card doesn't normally have an activated ability. You're not limited to the names of cards you saw in the opponent's hand.

  • 2021-03-19

    Activated abilities contain a colon. They're generally written "[Cost]: [Effect]." Some keyword abilities (such as equip) are activated abilities and will have colons in their reminder text. Triggered abilities (starting with "when," "whenever," or "at") are unaffected by the last ability of Sorcerous Spyglass.

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

In the 99

Every deck whose current list includes Sorcerous Spyglass, whatever its commander.

Decks running it 1
Games played 0
Win rate — Fewer than 5 completed games, which is 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
Iroh, Tea Master 1 0 —

Colors it shows up in

  • Boros 1 deck

Sorcerous Spyglass price history

The Foundations #679 printing, as Scryfall reports the TCGplayer market. Updated nightly.

Non-foil today$0.09$0.00 (0.0%)
Low $0.08 · High $0.09Tracked since Sep 28, 2026
Every recorded price change
DateNon-foil
Oct 27, 2026$0.09
Oct 26, 2026$0.09
Oct 20, 2026$0.08
Sep 28, 2026$0.09

A row is recorded only on nights the price moved, so each price held until the row above it.

Every version of Sorcerous Spyglass

11 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 publishes none for some of them. Click a card's art to chart that version's price above.

Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Sorcerous Spyglass. It runs a name search across every version, which covers 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.