Instrument of the Bards

Instrument of the Bards price & price history

What Instrument of the Bards costs today, what it cost before, and how commander players actually run it. Prices update daily.

Card details

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a harmony counter on Instrument of the Bards. {3}{G}, {T}: Search your library for a creature card with mana value equal to the number of harmony counters on Instrument of the Bards, reveal it, and put it into your hand. If that card is legendary, create a Treasure token. Then shuffle.

Type
Legendary Artifact
Mana cost
{G}
Rarity
rare
Latest printing
Adventures in the Forgotten Realms Promos
First printed
2021-07-23
Commander legality
Legal

Instrument of the Bards price today

$0.29

€0.22

30 days 0.0%

as of 2026-10-05

All-time high
$0.33
All-time low
$0.17
1-year average
$0.25
Data since
2025-07-24

Instrument of the Bards has traded between $0.17 and $0.33, averaging $0.25 over the past year. It appears in 630 of the commander decks we track.

Instrument of the Bards in the deckdiver.app commander deck database

Decks running it
630

of 891,084 commander decks, 0.1%.

Median deck price
$202

most of those decks cost $51.65 to $888.

Median power level
5.1

runs 4.1 to 7.2 across those decks.

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Real decks that run Instrument of the Bards

Pulled from the decks we index, with the stats we track for every one of them. The picks rotate weekly.

Budget build
$44.42
price
4.1
power
2.1
salt
Bracket 1 (Exhibition)
{B}{G}midrange
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Typical build
$175
price
4.9
power
3.4
salt
Bracket 4 (Optimized)
{U}{G}combo
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High-end build
$949
price
8.2
power
3.3
salt
Bracket 3 (Upgraded)
{W}{U}{B}{R}{G}midrange
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