Alhammarret's Archive
Reprinted in Star Trek Commander (TRC), releasing November 13, 2026.
Alhammarret's Archive: Legendary Artifact, Commander 2021. If you would gain life, you gain twice that much life instead. Prices and printings on Mana Grove.
- Mana cost
- {5}
- Mana value
- 5
- Type
- Legendary Artifact
- Colour identity
- Colourless
- Rarity
- Mythic
- Set
- Commander 2021 (C21)
- Released
- 2021-04-23
- Collector number
- 233
- Artist
- Richard Wright
- Commander rank
- 976 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)
Build around this card with Grover
About Alhammarret's Archive
Alhammarret's Archive is a Magic: The Gathering card, a mythic rare colourless legendary artifact from Commander 2021 (C21), a Commander product released in April 2021. It is collector number 233 in that set, with art by Richard Wright. It costs {5} (five generic mana) to cast, for a mana value of 5. It has no colour identity. It is legal in Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander, Oathbreaker and Penny Dreadful. It has been printed in 5 sets, from Magic Origins (2015) to Commander 2021 (2021). The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $12.02 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-01).
Card text
If you would gain life, you gain twice that much life instead.
If you would draw a card except the first one you draw in each of your draw steps, draw two cards instead.
It contains the totality of Alhammarret's notes, theories, and ponderings.
Market price
Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $12.02 (as of 2026-11-01).
The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.
Format legality
Legality of Alhammarret's Archive by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.
| Pioneer | Legal |
|---|---|
| Modern | Legal |
| Legacy | Legal |
| Vintage | Legal |
| Commander | Legal |
| Duel Commander | Legal |
| Oathbreaker | Legal |
| Penny Dreadful | Legal |
Other printings of Alhammarret's Archive
Alhammarret's Archive has been printed in 5 sets. The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.
| Printing | Rarity | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Star Trek Commander (TRC) #337 | Mythic | 2026 |
| Star Trek Commander (TRC) #484 | Mythic | 2026 |
| Secret Lair Countdown (SLC) #27 | Mythic | 2025 |
| The List (PLST) #ORI-221 | Mythic | 2019 |
| Magic Origins (ORI) #221 | Mythic | 2015 |
Official rulings
Five official rulings apply to Alhammarret's Archive, newest first.
- If two or more replacement effects would apply to a card-drawing event, the player drawing the card chooses the order in which to apply them.
- If an effect would set your life total to a specific number that’s higher than your current life total, that effect would cause you to gain life equal to the difference. Alhammarret’s Archive will then double the amount of life that effect would cause you to gain. For example, if you have 3 life and an effect says that your life total “becomes 10,” your life total will actually become 17.
- In a Two-Headed Giant game, only the controller of Alhammarret’s Archive is affected by it. If that player’s teammate gains life, Alhammarret’s Archive will have no effect, even when that life gain is applied to the team’s shared life total.
- Similarly, the effects of the last abilities of multiple Archives are cumulative. If you control two, you’ll draw four times the number of cards, and so on.
- Because Alhammarret’s Archive is legendary, it’s unlikely that one player will control two. However, if that happens, life gained by that player will be multiplied by four. Three Archives will multiply that life gain by eight, and so on.
Similar cards
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