Manic Scribe

As of Jul 28, 2026, the cheapest tracked printing of Manic Scribe is $0.33 (SOI #73), and the most expensive is $1.91 (SOI #73, Foil). The benchmark price (cheapest playable nonfoil) is $0.33, up 6.5% over 7 days, down 2.9% over 30 days, up 10.0% over 90 days. All-time tracked high: $0.40 (2026).

Manic Scribe has 1 tracked printing across 1 sets, in nonfoil and foil finishes.

SOI #73

$0.33

CK $0.39 / $0.03 91%

MP $0.15 378 avail

SOI #73 Foil

$1.91 +479%

CK $3.99 / $1.60 16%

MP $1.44 18 avail

Card Kingdom currently pays $1.60 cash for SOI #73 (Foil); the retail-buylist spread on that printing is 60% (wide).

• Apr 8, 2016 Because you consider only the characteristics of a double-faced card's front face while it's not on the battlefield, the types of its back face won't be counted for delirium.
• Apr 8, 2016 In some rare cases, you can have a token or a copy of a spell in your graveyard at the moment that an object's delirium ability counts the card types among cards in your graveyard, before that token or copy ceases to exist. Because tokens and copies of spells are not cards, even if they are copies of cards, their types will never be counted.
• Apr 8, 2016 Most triggered delirium abilities use an intervening "if" clause. There must be four or more card types among cards in your graveyard in order for these abilities to trigger, otherwise they never trigger at all. There's no way to have the ability trigger if there aren't enough card types, even if you intend to raise that number in response to the triggered ability. The number of card types is checked again as the trigger resolves, and if it has become too low somehow, the ability does nothing. If which card types are in your graveyard changes but the quantity of card types stays the same (or increases), then the delirium triggered ability will still resolve.
• Apr 8, 2016 The card types in Magic are artifact, battle, creature, enchantment, instant, kindred, land, planeswalker, and sorcery. Supertypes (such as legendary and basic) and subtypes (such as Human and Equipment) are not counted.
• Apr 8, 2016 The number of card types matters, not the number of cards. For example, Wicker Witch (an artifact creature) along with Catalog (an instant) and Chaplain's Blessing (a sorcery) will enable delirium.

Manic Scribe has been reprinted 2 times.

Set	Date	Rarity	Treatment
SOI #73	2016-04-08	Uncommon	Standard
SOI #73	2016-04-08	Uncommon	Standard

Manic Scribe is the #9,898 most-played card on EDHREC, down 127 places over the last 30 days.