Cascading Cataracts
Land
Indestructible
: Add 
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, : Add five mana in any combination of colors.
- CMC
- 0
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Amonkhet Remastered
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #1179
Cascading Cataracts turns any five mana into any five mana — that activation is the entire reason it exists, and for five-color decks with demanding pips it's a land that never enters tapped and never dilutes your color base. The cost is real: it produces colorless on its own, so it's a liability in decks that don't need the fixing badly enough to stomach that downside, but for something like Ulalek, Fused Atrocity — which needs all five colors reliably — or any deck running Clearwater Goblet with heavy off-color requirements, it earns its slot unconditionally.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Ulalek, Fused Atrocity
Ulalek, Fused Atrocity demands all five colors on curve, and Cascading Cataracts is one of the cleanest answers — tap five mana of any mix and get exactly what you need to cast or activate on time. Over half of Ulalek decks run it, and that inclusion rate reflects how punishing a missed color pip is when your commander costs five.
Jolrael, Voice of Zhalfir
Jolrael, Voice of Zhalfir is mono-green at heart but often splashes into additional colors for its token and draw payoffs, making Cascading Cataracts a clean answer to off-color requirements that a basic Forest can't cover. The indestructible clause matters here too — board wipes that would strip your mana base leave Cataracts standing.
Sen Triplets
Sen Triplets imposes three-color requirements and then asks you to cast spells from your opponents' hands, which means your mana base needs to answer colors you didn't plan for. Cascading Cataracts covers that gap cleanly, converting whatever you have into whatever you need on the fly.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Cascading Cataracts is a Commander card — full stop. The ability to convert a pile of off-color mana into any combination of five is irrelevant in non-rotating 60-card formats where two-color mana bases are tight enough that you'd never waste a land slot on colorless production. In Modern and Pioneer, competitive decks don't need this kind of flexibility and won't pay the colorless-land tax to get it. Commander is where Cascading Cataracts does real work: five-color commanders and greedy three-to-four color piles with punishing pip requirements get a land that doubles as a rainbow fixer, enters untapped, and survives indestructible-proof wrath effects. The indestructibility clause is undersold — in a format where Armageddon effects and land destruction see occasional play, Cascading Cataracts is one of the few non-basic lands that simply doesn't care.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Clearwater GobletDoubling SeasonDismantleDarksteel ReactorCascading Cataracts
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Current price
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Pricing data isn't available for Cascading Cataracts at the moment — check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for current buylist and retail numbers. Given its narrow Commander-specific role and lack of competitive crossover, it has historically sat in the budget-to-mid range, making it an easy pick-up for five-color builds without a significant financial commitment.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.