Voracious Tome-Skimmer ECL 0250 · uncommon
Voracious Tome-Skimmer · {U/B}{U/B}{U/B} · Creature — Faerie Rogue · Flying Whenever you cast a spell during an opponent's turn, you may pay 1 life. If you do, draw a card. · Power / toughness: 2/3 · She spoils the book before you read it.
- Price
- from $0.221 printing
- Win rate
- 52.7% GIH 8,188 instances · Premier Draft
Jan 20–Mar 5, 2026 · 17Lands - Draft
- ◆ Key pickOpponent-turn spells can trade one life for a card. Keep your mana open only when you have a useful play and enough life to spend.
- Job
- Payoffs
Game-in-hand win rate, all deck colors. 4,319 wins in 8,188 card-in-hand instances.
7,154 distinct games · 2,610 distinct drafts · games recorded Jan 20–Mar 5, 2026.
17Lands file dated May 18, 2026 · 100-instance minimum · 17Lands public data ↗
Opponent-turn spells can trade one life for a card. Keep your mana open only when you have a useful play and enough life to spend.
How this changes your picks
Rules-derived- Take it when
- Hold up useful interaction and flash creatures, earning cards or selection from casting on the opponent’s turn while flyers finish.
- What to take next
- With Tome-Skimmer present, cast Glamermite during the opponent’s turn to draw for one life and tap a relevant attacker or blocker.
- Wrong pick
- Do not pass an empty turn simply to represent a spell. Develop your board when you have no profitable instant-speed play.
- Mana & splash
- Keep the colored sources needed for early spells. A synergy payoff does not automatically justify a splash.
Support cards
3Interactions from the card text, not a ranking.
More
- One-pick Draft
- Opponent-turn spells can trade one life for a card. Keep your mana open only when you have a useful play and enough life to spend.
- Sealed vs Draft
- Opponent-turn spells can trade one life for a card. Keep your mana open only when you have a useful play and enough life to spend.
Draft data
−2.2 pp vs 55.0% average · 8,188 instances
Premier Draft · Jan 20–Mar 5, 2026 · average from 536,566 games
#215 of 274 nonland cards by win rate · last seen around pick 5.5 on average (67,093 packs).
51 of 58 multicolor cards · 14 of 15 multicolor uncommon cards.
32,097 matches
Pick and maindeck observations: Jan 20–Mar 5, 2026. Played/benched cells use matches when available; the drawn cell uses game instances.
○ Opening hand 51.6% · 3,303 instances
● Drawn later 53.5% · 4,885 instances
In hand 52.7% · 8,188 instances
Unseen in deck 49.4% · 10,535 instances
+3.4 percentage points when drawn
Compared with multicolor cards
Ranks require 100 observations for that metric; comparisons are descriptive, not a pick order. Pick ranks put earlier picks first.
Best decks for it
no-splash decks only · card-level in-hand rates · 100 minimum
Blue–Black UB58.3%2,700 instancesMerfolk WU51.3%686 instancesElementals UR43.6% ◌133 instancesElves BG43.4% ◌106 instancesBlue–Green UG83.3%6 instances · under 100White–Black WB50.0%56 instances · under 100Goblins BR41.8%91 instances · under 100Each tick is this card’s all-decks rate (52.7% · 8,188 instances). A high card rate does not prove that splashing it will improve your deck.
Usually played with
Deck co-occurrence; not evidence of synergy.
Glamermite7,069 games with both in the deckUnexpected Assistance6,854 games with both in the deckMischievous Sneakling6,813 games with both in the deckHow to read this
Observational, not a causal bonus. Both cards must be in the deck. Drawn means opening hand or normally drawn; each card counts once per game. Game-level approximate intervals do not account for repeated games by the same drafter.
At least 100 games in each of four drawn/not-drawn groups; adjusted for game length and screened by the lower confidence bound. Do not add these points to a card’s win rate.
Where it sits in the set
Above 22% of 274 nonland cards with 100+ instances, in win-rate order.
17Lands public datasets ↗ · CC BY 4.0 ↗ · Jan 20–Mar 5, 2026
Pick a printing for its prices and pull odds.
| Finish | Found in | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Nonfoil | Play Booster · MTGO Redemption | $0.22 |
| Foil | Collector Booster · Play Booster | $0.31 |
Foil in a Collector Booster · Modeled · About 1 in 39 packs (2.59%) · 27.0% per display · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →
Foil in a Play Booster · Modeled · About 1 in 336 packs (0.30%) · 8.6% per display · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →
Nonfoil in a Play Booster · Modeled · About 1 in 30 packs (3.29%) · 63.4% per display · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →
How to pull it
Official rates for the whole category, not this card.
| Booster | Slot | Per pack | Category |
|---|---|---|---|
| Play Booster | Uncommons | 100% per position | Uncommons |
| Play Booster | Wildcard of any rarity | 100% | Wildcard of any rarity |
| Play Booster | Traditional foil of any rarity | 100% | Traditional foil of any rarity |
| Collector Booster | Traditional foil uncommons | 100% per position | Traditional foil uncommons |
Wizards · Collecting Lorwyn Eclipsed ↗ · Oct 29, 2026
Details & sources
- Legal in
- Standard · Historic · Timeless · Pioneer · Modern · Legacy · Vintage · CommanderLimited eligibility depends on the event and its booster pool.
- Illustration
- Loïc Canavaggia, ECL 250 · Scryfall ↗
- More like this
- Blue–Black cards → · Regular printing printings →
- Sources
- Wizards · Collecting Lorwyn Eclipsed · Oct 29, 2026
Scryfall USD, snapshot Oct 25
Comprehensive Rules ↗