Suspicious Bookcase

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Suspicious Bookcase: Artifact Creature - Wall, Duskmourn: House of Horror Commander. Printings, market prices, rulings, and format legality on Mana Grove.

Mana cost
{2}
Mana value
2
Type
Artifact Creature - Wall
Colour identity
Colourless
Power / toughness
0/4
Rarity
Uncommon
Set
Duskmourn: House of Horror Commander (DSC)
Released
2024-09-27
Collector number
95
Artist
Tyler Walpole
Commander rank
4,992 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)
Keywords
Defender

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About Suspicious Bookcase

Suspicious Bookcase is a Magic: The Gathering card, an uncommon colourless artifact creature from Duskmourn: House of Horror Commander (DSC), a Commander product released in September 2024. It is collector number 95 in that set, with art by Tyler Walpole. It costs {2} (two generic mana) to cast, for a mana value of 2. It is a 0/4 creature. It has no colour identity. It is legal in Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander, Oathbreaker, Brawl, Historic, Timeless, Gladiator and Penny Dreadful. It has been printed in 7 sets, from Core Set 2019 (2018) to Avatar: The Last Airbender Eternal (2025). The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $0.26 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-11).

Card text

Defender

{3}, {T}: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.

Survivors hungry for knowledge sometimes find, to their surprise, that knowledge is hungry for survivors.

Market price

Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $0.26 (as of 2026-11-11).

The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.

Format legality

Legality of Suspicious Bookcase by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.

PioneerLegal
ModernLegal
LegacyLegal
VintageLegal
CommanderLegal
Duel CommanderLegal
OathbreakerLegal
BrawlLegal
HistoricLegal
TimelessLegal
GladiatorLegal
Penny DreadfulLegal

Other printings of Suspicious Bookcase

Suspicious Bookcase has been printed in 7 sets. The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.

PrintingRarityYear
Avatar: The Last Airbender Eternal (TLE) #170Uncommon2025
Commander Masters (CMM) #977Uncommon2023
Streets of New Capenna (SNC) #245Uncommon2022
Jumpstart (JMP) #487Uncommon2020
The List (PLST) #M19-246Uncommon2019
Core Set 2019 (M19) #246Uncommon2018

Official rulings

One official ruling applies to Suspicious Bookcase.

  • Activating Suspicious Bookcase's ability after a creature has become blocked won't cause that creature to become unblocked.

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