Price$3.75 – $1100.00
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Artifact
LegalCard DrawRank #719
At the beginning of each player's draw step, if this artifact is untapped, that player draws an additional card.
Why is this card good?
Howling Mine is a symmetrical card-advantage engine — and that symmetry is the whole catch. Everyone draws extra, including your opponents, so you need a reason this asymmetry pays you better than the table.
Where it shines:
- Group hug / Politics decks (Kynaios and Tiro, Phelddagrif) where you're using extra cards as bribery and goodwill currency.
- Wheel/Nekusar-style decks that punish opponents for drawing — pairing it with maximum-hand-size payoffs, Underworld Dreams, or symmetrical-draw-into-symmetrical-damage shells.
- Decks that simply out-leverage cards faster than opponents (storm-ish, combo builds wanting to dig).
It's cheap and untaps reliably, and you can tap it down (with crew, convoke, or tapper tricks) to deny opponents a card on their turn — a small but real lever.
When NOT to play it: any midrange or grindy deck without a payoff. Handing three opponents free cards while they durdle into answers and threats is usually a net loss. If you can't punish or out-pace the draw, skip it.
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Printings (32)
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Played by these commanders
Zedruu the Greathearted100% of 1
Kynaios and Tiro of Meletis100% of 1
Combos (1)
- Hive Mind + Enter the Infinite + Howling Mine
→ Each opponent loses the game, Infinite card draw, Infinite card draw for each opponent