Baldur's Gate
Legendary Land — Gate
: Add 
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, : Add X mana of any one color, where X is the number of other Gates you control.
- CMC
- 0
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Battle for Baldur's Gate Promos
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #2380
Baldur's Gate enters tapped and taps for colorless, but it also copies the mana ability of any Gate you control — which means in the right shell it's functionally a land that doubles your Gate output. Outside of dedicated Gate synergy decks, Nine-Fingers Keene being the obvious gravitational center, it's a bulk land with no upside.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Nine-Fingers Keene
Nine-Fingers Keene is built to abuse Gates, and Baldur's Gate is one of the highest-inclusion pieces in the archetype because it copies the mana ability of any other Gate — turning a single Gate of Doom or Baldur's Gate itself into an explosive burst of colored mana. At a 98% inclusion rate across nearly 6,200 decks, it's essentially mandatory.
Omo, Queen of Vesuva
Omo, Queen of Vesuva cares about land types and can distribute them freely, making Baldur's Gate relevant as both a Gate and a mana-copying utility land. The 60% inclusion rate reflects that it fits the subgame Omo is already playing without requiring any additional infrastructure.
Archelos, Lagoon Mystic
Archelos, Lagoon Mystic rewards running lands that enter tapped by punishing opponents whose permanents follow the same rule — Baldur's Gate slots in cleanly as a tapped land that also happens to be a Gate, keeping the engine honest. Roughly 29% of Archelos decks include it, mostly those that lean into the Gate subtheme.
Go-Shintai of Life's Origin
Go-Shintai of Life's Origin runs Baldur's Gate primarily because Shrine decks often stretch across five colors and need every piece of fixing they can find, and the Gate type is incidental upside. At 17% inclusion it shows up in the builds that are already committed to a Gate package for other reasons.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Baldur's Gate is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but competitive Legacy and Vintage have no interest in a tapped land with a narrow tribal condition — those formats don't play Gates, and tempo is too precious to give up. Commander is where Baldur's Gate actually does work, specifically in Gate-matters decks where copying mana abilities turns it into a mana accelerant. Outside of that niche, it's a strictly worse dual in any format that can run real fixing.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
unknown tier
Current pricing data for Baldur's Gate isn't available in this snapshot, but given how niche the card is — nearly all demand comes from Nine-Fingers Keene players — expect it to sit in bulk-to-low-value territory. Pick it up if you're building a Gate deck; there's no compelling reason to speculate on it otherwise.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.