Basilisk Gate
Land — Gate
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, : Target creature gets +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the number of Gates you control. Activate only as a sorcery.
- CMC
- 0
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Mystery Booster 2
- Price
- $0.47
- EDHREC rank
- #2622
Basilisk Gate drops a creature's power to zero and staples on deathtouch — for free, if your land count is high enough. In a gate-heavy deck, Nine-Fingers Keene routinely equips this for zero mana, turning any creature into a removal machine that trades up with anything.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Nine-Fingers Keene
Nine-Fingers Keene is the canonical home because the gate-dense manabase makes Basilisk Gate's equip cost trivially cheap — often zero — letting a single attacker threaten to kill any blocker regardless of size.
Omo, Queen of Vesuva
Omo, Queen of Vesuva frequently runs a land-type-matters package, and Basilisk Gate slots in as both a functional land and a free equip payoff once enough gates and other land types accumulate.
Archelos, Lagoon Mystic
Archelos, Lagoon Mystic builds around high land counts and enters-tapped manipulation, and Basilisk Gate earns its slot by converting that land density into combat leverage without spending a card slot on a separate equipment.
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 |
Commander is where Basilisk Gate is most at home — 100-card decks running 36–40 lands can bring the equip cost to zero, and the deathtouch rider turns any creature into a credible threat against high-power boards. In Pauper, it's a legitimate roleplay piece in gate-tribal shells, though the equip cost reduction is harder to sustain with fewer lands. Legacy and Vintage are legal but uninterested — equipment that requires a land-count threshold can't compete for slots against faster, unconditional options. Basilisk Gate is a Commander card first, a Pauper niche card second, and little else elsewhere.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.47 bulk tier
At $0.47, Basilisk Gate is firmly bulk — grab a copy without thinking twice. Demand is real in gate-tribal Commander builds, but supply is deep enough that the price has nowhere meaningful to go.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.