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Living Library

First printed in Reality Fracture (2026)

Living Library

Artifact Creature — Book Illusion

6 generic, Sacrifice this creature: Choose target creature or planeswalker an opponent controls. Its owner shuffles it into their library.

"Too many lives have been cut short, too many of their futures untold. I can rewrite them. I can give them a voice."
—The Theorist, Jace Beleren

0/4

Illustrated by
Jarel Threat

Legality

Prices

Paper price: €0.02 / $0.09 , the cheapest non-foil print (Cardmarket and TCGplayer through MTGJSON, 4 Nov 2026).

MTGO price: 0.002 TIX, the cheapest non-foil print (average sell price on GoatBots, 4 Nov 2026).

Standard In 3 of 4862 decks (0.1%), most in Other Temur decks

Share of decks
0.1%
▲ 0.1 vs previous 30 days
13 Aug: 0.0% 20 Aug: 0.0% 27 Aug: 0.0% 3 Sep: 0.0% 10 Sep: 0.0% 17 Sep: 0.0% 24 Sep: 0.0% 1 Oct: 0.0% 8 Oct: 0.0% 15 Oct: 0.0% 22 Oct: 0.1% 29 Oct: 0.1%
Weekly, last 90 days
Decks
3
3 main, 0 sideboard
Avg. copies
1.0
in the main deck
Win rate
22%
0 top 8, leagues excluded
Weekly data
Week fromShare of decks
13 Aug0.0%
20 Aug0.0%
27 Aug0.0%
3 Sep0.0%
10 Sep0.0%
17 Sep0.0%
24 Sep0.0%
1 Oct0.0%
8 Oct0.0%
15 Oct0.0%
22 Oct0.1%
29 Oct0.1%

Archetypes by metagame share

Archetype Meta Play it
Other Temur decks 0.4% 5%
Other Five-Color decks 0.4% 11%

Played together with

Card Together Lift
Way of the Cryomancer100%1620.7
Arcane Amphisbaena100%1620.7
Arni, Humble Scribe100%1620.7
Surveillance Phantasm100%1620.7
Restore with Empathy100%1215.5
Fblthp, Impossibly Lost100%540.2
Something Worth Saving100%151.9
Together
decks with this card that also play the other one (main deck)
Lift
how much more often than chance: 1 = unrelated, above 1 = played together on purpose

Best win rate

DeckRecord
Simic Midrange
IainMcKenzie in Magic Spotlight: Fracture - SCG CON Hartford - Saturday - 9:00 am
2-7
22%

Leagues excluded: MTGO publishes only the 5-0 decks.

Latest decks

DeckCopiesFinish
Bant Midrange
USJATL80,
1 main #185
of 269
0-0
Bant Midrange
USJATL80,
1 main #827
of 869
0-2
Simic Midrange
IainMcKenzie,
1 main #619
of 781
2-7

Limited On MTG Arena

Win rates in Arena drafts and sealed, retrieved from 17Lands (CC BY 4.0).

Win rates of Living Library in Limited
Set GIH WR vs set IWD Games
Reality Fracture (FRA), Premier Draft 54.7% -0.7 +1.0 3768
Reality Fracture (FRA), Sealed 56.1% -0.6 -0.2 720
GIH WR
win rate of the games in which the card was in the opening hand or drawn
vs set
points above or below the average win rate of all decks in the set
IWD
improvement when drawn: GIH WR minus the win rate when the card stayed in the library
Games
games in which the card was seen