Manic Scribe
- Mana cost
- {1}{U}
- Type
- Creature — Human Wizard
- Power / toughness
- 0 / 3
- Set
- Jumpstart: Historic Horizons #211 (uncommon)
When this creature enters, each opponent mills three cards.
Delirium — At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, if there are four or more card types among cards in your graveyard, that player mills three cards.
Manic Scribe has 3 printings, first in Shadows over Innistrad (2016). EDHREC ranks it #10,466 among Commander cards. It appears most in Bruvac the Grandiloquent decks (1,861 on EDHREC). It has 6 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: legal
Commanders that run Manic Scribe most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Bruvac the Grandiloquent: 1,861 decks
- Mirko Vosk, Mind Drinker: 390 decks
- Lazav, Dimir Mastermind: 361 decks
- Lord Xander, the Collector: 246 decks
- Wrexial, the Risen Deep: 130 decks
- Naru Meha, Master Wizard: 68 decks
- Szadek, Lord of Secrets: 46 decks
- Zellix, Sanity Flayer: 46 decks
Often played with Manic Scribe
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : The number of card types matters, not the number of cards. For example, Wicker Witch (an artifact creature) along with Catalog (an instant) and Chaplain's Blessing (a sorcery) will enable delirium.
- : The upkeep step is before the draw step, after the untap step. Manic Scribe's delirium ability mills an opponent's library before that player draws a card during their draw step.
- : The card types in Magic are artifact, battle, creature, enchantment, instant, kindred, land, planeswalker, and sorcery. Supertypes (such as legendary and basic) and subtypes (such as Human and Equipment) are not counted.
- : In some rare cases, you can have a token or a copy of a spell in your graveyard at the moment that an object's delirium ability counts the card types among cards in your graveyard, before that token or copy ceases to exist. Because tokens and copies of spells are not cards, even if they are copies of cards, their types will never be counted.
- : Because you consider only the characteristics of a double-faced card's front face while it's not on the battlefield, the types of its back face won't be counted for delirium.
- : Most triggered delirium abilities use an intervening "if" clause. There must be four or more card types among cards in your graveyard in order for these abilities to trigger, otherwise they never trigger at all. There's no way to have the ability trigger if there aren't enough card types, even if you intend to raise that number in response to the triggered ability. The number of card types is checked again as the trigger resolves, and if it has become too low somehow, the ability does nothing. If which card types are in your graveyard changes but the quantity of card types stays the same (or increases), then the delirium triggered ability will still resolve.