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Azorius Chancery

Land

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand.
{T}: Add {W}{U}.

CMC
0
Mana cost
Color identity
UW
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Commander Anthology Volume II
Price
$0.37
EDHREC rank
#432
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Azorius Chancery card art
Azorius Chancery enters tapped and bounces a land you control — a real cost — but it produces two mana every turn it stays in play, which is a meaningful rate for a land slot. Commanders like Kodama of the East Tree abuse the bounce trigger as a free activation, and Aminatou, Veil Piercer flickers it repeatedly to reset the enters-tapped penalty and chain value off the bounce.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Aminatou, Veil Piercer

Aminatou, Veil Piercer

41.4% of decks · synergy 0.28

Aminatou, Veil Piercer blinks Azorius Chancery to dodge the tapped drawback entirely, turning it into a reliable two-mana producer with an on-demand bounce trigger that enables further enters-the-battlefield chains.

02
Morska, Undersea Sleuth

Morska, Undersea Sleuth

42.2% of decks · synergy 0.28

Morska, Undersea Sleuth runs Azorius Chancery as a dependable two-color source in a color pair that often struggles with fixing, and the bounce trigger can reset a tapped utility land for extra value.

03
Ranar the Ever-Watchful

Ranar the Ever-Watchful

64.0% of decks · synergy 0.28

Ranar the Ever-Watchful leans on flicker effects throughout the deck, and Azorius Chancery slots in as a land that rewards that strategy — each blink clears the tapped penalty and rebounces a land for incremental tempo.

04
Gavi, Nest Warden

Gavi, Nest Warden

37.1% of decks · synergy 0.25

Gavi, Nest Warden wants reliable white and blue mana to cycle on turn one, and Azorius Chancery's two-mana output helps smooth the curve once the early turns are behind you.

05
Satya, Aetherflux Genius

Satya, Aetherflux Genius

35.8% of decks · synergy 0.24

Satya, Aetherflux Genius generates token copies of nontoken permanents, and Azorius Chancery being a land that produces extra mana makes it a compact target for bounce-and-replay lines that fuel Satya's artifact-heavy gameplan.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper legal
oathbreaker legal

Azorius Chancery is where it belongs in Commander — a format with slower games and single copies of lands, where the two-mana return justifies the tempo loss of entering tapped. In Pauper it sees fringe play in controlling shells that need two-color fixing without spending rare slots, and the bounce can be a genuine feature in untap or landfall strategies there. Legacy and Vintage both move too fast for a tapped land with no immediate impact; Azorius Chancery is a liability in either format and sees essentially no competitive play. Pioneer and Standard aren't options by legality.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.37 bulk tier

At $0.37, Azorius Chancery is bulk — pick it up out of any common box without a second thought. Reprint frequency keeps the ceiling low, so there's no price trajectory worth tracking; you're buying it for function, not value.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.