Ballroom
Land
This land enters tapped.
: Add 
or 
.
, : Investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "
, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")
- CMC
- 0
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BW
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Ravnica: Clue Edition
- Price
- $0.36
- EDHREC rank
- #12538
Ballroom gives your creatures a consistent tap outlet that converts board presence into card advantage, and Teysa, Opulent Oligarch turns that into a repeatable token and draw engine on the same permanent. The cost of running it is a non-basic land slot, which is exactly as cheap as it sounds.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Teysa, Opulent Oligarch
Teysa, Opulent Oligarch rewards you for tapping creatures to produce Treasure tokens, and Ballroom lets you sink those taps into structured card draw — the two cards form a tight loop that turns a wide board into sustained card advantage every turn cycle.
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 |
Ballroom is a Commander card through and through — the tap-for-card-draw effect scales with wide boards and long games, both conditions that Commander reliably provides. In Legacy and Vintage, where it's technically legal, slower value engines like this don't compete with the raw power of those formats and you'll never see it sleeved up. Commander and Oathbreaker are the only realistic homes, and even there Ballroom earns its slot only in decks that can reliably produce multiple creatures per turn and want to convert that presence into cards.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.36 bulk tier
At $0.36, Ballroom sits firmly in bulk territory — low enough that the financial barrier to testing it is zero. Bulk non-basic lands with narrow commander synergies rarely climb unless a new commander breaks the effect wide open, so don't expect movement.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.