Arch of Orazca
Land
Ascend (If you control ten or more permanents, you get the city's blessing for the rest of the game.)
: Add 
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, : Draw a card. Activate only if you have the city's blessing.
- CMC
- 0
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Rivals of Ixalan
- Price
- $0.42
- EDHREC rank
- #2434
Arch of Orazca turns a spare land slot into repeatable card draw — five mana and City's Blessing in hand draws you a card every turn, no questions asked. The setup cost is real, but in decks that go wide or accumulate permanents fast, like Pantlaza, Sun-Favored, you hit ten permanents early and the Arch starts paying rent.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Pantlaza, Sun-Favored
Pantlaza, Sun-Favored floods the board with Dinosaurs quickly, which means City's Blessing arrives on schedule and Arch of Orazca becomes a reliable draw engine by the mid-game without spending a card slot on a non-permanent.
Zhulodok, Void Gorger
Zhulodok, Void Gorger plays a long, high-CMC game that naturally accumulates permanents, so City's Blessing is almost automatic — Arch of Orazca slots in as colorless card draw that doesn't compete with the spell slots Zhulodok needs for its cascade payoffs.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Arch of Orazca is a Commander card — full stop. The City's Blessing condition is trivially met in a four-player game where ten permanents can hit the table before turn five, and repeatable draw stapled to a land is exactly the kind of resource advantage the format rewards. In Legacy, Modern, and Pioneer it's unplayable: those formats move too fast for a land that enters tapped, produces colorless, and requires a ten-permanent setup before it does anything. Oathbreaker is closer to Commander in pace and can use it, but the two-player nature makes the condition harder to trigger early. Stick to Commander.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.42 bulk tier
At $0.42, Arch of Orazca is firmly bulk — there's no reason not to own a copy if you're building any wide or big-permanent Commander deck. Bulk rares with consistent Commander demand tend to stay in this range rather than crater further, so picking one up now costs less than a pack.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.