Adarkar Unicorn
Creature — Unicorn
: Add 
or 
. Spend this mana only to pay cumulative upkeep costs.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- UW
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Ice Age
- Price
- $0.19
- EDHREC rank
- #29977
Adarkar Unicorn taps to add one mana of any color, but only to cast white spells or activated abilities of white permanents — a restriction that makes it filler rather than ramp in any deck that isn't mono-white or near-mono-white. Three mana for a 2/2 with a locked-down mana ability is a bad deal when unconditional options exist at the same price point.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Adarkar Unicorn is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but sees essentially no competitive play in any of them. In Commander, the ceiling is a narrow white-heavy shell where the color restriction rarely bites — even then, better fixers crowd it out. In Pauper, where the card is technically eligible, the format's efficient commons leave no room for a 3-mana 2/2 with conditional mana. Legacy and Vintage don't register it at all.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.19 bulk tier
At $0.19, Adarkar Unicorn is deep bulk — the kind of card that ends up in a collection box, not a deck. That price is unlikely to move in either direction; there's no spike target here, just a cheap filler rare that fills a role better cards handle for the same or less.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.