Braidwood Cup
Artifact
: You gain 1 life.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Urza's Destiny
- Price
- $0.29
- EDHREC rank
- #22650
Braidwood Cup enters tapped, pays three mana, and produces one colorless mana per turn — that's a net loss in tempo and output against nearly every alternative. Unless your deck has a specific reason to care about the Cup artifact subtype or a recurring untap effect, this is a slot wasted.
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 |
Braidwood Cup is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but legality and playability aren't the same thing. In Commander, three mana for one mana per turn is outclassed by Fellwar Stone, Mind Stone, and a long list of two-mana rocks that do more immediately — Braidwood Cup doesn't make the cut in most builds. Legacy and Vintage have no interest in a slow, inefficient mana source when those formats run Sol Ring effects and fast mana that leaves this artifact in the dust. Oathbreaker shares Commander's card pool logic, and the same arithmetic applies.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.29 bulk tier
At $0.29, Braidwood Cup sits firmly in bulk territory, and that price reflects its playability ceiling accurately. Don't expect movement — this is a card you pull from a bulk box, not one you buy deliberately.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.