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Cabal Coffers

Land

{2}, {T}: Add {B} for each Swamp you control.

CMC
0
Mana cost
Color identity
B
Rarity
mythic
Set
Tales of Middle-earth Commander
Price
—
EDHREC rank
#188
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Cabal Coffers card art
Cabal Coffers is the most reliable mana engine in mono-black Commander — tap it with enough Swamps in play and you're producing five, eight, ten mana off a single land drop. The cost is real: it enters tapped, contributes nothing without Swamps to back it, and becomes a combo centerpiece that draws removal; in something like Toxrill, the Corrosive, where you're also leaning on Rings of Brighthearth to double activations, opponents will come for it.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Toxrill, the Corrosive

Toxrill, the Corrosive

35.5% of decks · synergy 0.25

Toxrill, the Corrosive is a mana-hungry seven-drop that wants to activate every turn and snowball off its own slug tokens — Cabal Coffers provides the sustained black mana to cast Toxrill on curve and keep it fueled, and it pairs with Rings of Brighthearth to double the Coffers activation itself for obscene output.

02
Athreos, God of Passage

Athreos, God of Passage

35.1% of decks · synergy 0.24

Athreos, God of Passage runs a recursive sacrifice loop that taxes opponents repeatedly and often builds toward heavy black spell investment — Cabal Coffers supplies the mana to rebuy threats and pay activation costs without ever running dry.

03
Phage the Untouchable

Phage the Untouchable

77.3% of decks · synergy 0.23

Phage the Untouchable is one of the most mana-intensive commanders in the format, demanding eleven mana to cast safely through enablers — Cabal Coffers is nearly mandatory here, giving Phage the Untouchable pilots the burst production needed to land the combo before opponents can answer it.

04
The Scarab God

The Scarab God

28.1% of decks · synergy 0.18

The Scarab God wants to activate its exile-and-reanimate ability as many times as possible each turn cycle, and that ability costs five mana per trigger — Cabal Coffers converts a developed Swamp base into enough black mana to threaten two or three reanimations in a single turn.

05
Toshiro Umezawa

Toshiro Umezawa

72.4% of decks · synergy 0.18

Toshiro Umezawa rewards running a dense suite of instants and flashing them back from the graveyard, which means holding up mana on every opponent's turn — Cabal Coffers makes that constant mana-open posture trivially easy to maintain, letting Toshiro Umezawa chain kills and flashbacks without skipping a beat.

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 not legal
oathbreaker legal

Commander is where Cabal Coffers lives — the 100-card singleton format encourages heavy Swamp counts, gives you time to develop your land base, and rewards the kind of explosive late-game mana that Coffers produces. In Legacy and Vintage it's legal but largely irrelevant; those formats are too fast for a land that sits inert until you've assembled several Swamps, and both formats have access to far more efficient mana engines. Oathbreaker is a viable home for the same reasons Commander is, provided your signature spell is black-intensive enough to burn through the output. Cabal Coffers is simply a Commander card — everywhere else it either can't keep up or the decks that want it don't exist at the right scale.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

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Cabal Coffers has seen multiple reprints, which have kept it accessible relative to its power level, but it still commands a meaningful premium as one of the most widely played mono-black staples in Commander. Check current singles prices before buying — the gap between printings can shift its market value by several dollars in either direction, and it's worth picking up a lower-cost printing when available since the card itself is format-defining regardless of the version.

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