Castle
Enchantment
Untapped creatures you control get +0/+2.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border
- Price
- $0.99
- EDHREC rank
- #17686
Castle taps for colorless mana and, more importantly, redirects damage from your creatures to itself — a passive damage shield stapled to a land. Tadeas, Juniper Ascendant lists it in over a third of decks because keeping creatures alive long enough to trigger his untap ability is the whole game plan.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Tadeas, Juniper Ascendant
Tadeas, Juniper Ascendant rewards attacking with high-power creatures that have no abilities, and Castle lets those creatures trade through blockers without dying — keeping the untap triggers flowing every combat step.
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 |
Castle is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but it sees virtually no play outside Commander. In Legacy and Vintage, a land that enters tapped and produces colorless mana is a non-starter when the format demands precise mana on turn one. Commander is the one format slow enough to tolerate that enter-tapped tax, and niche enough to reward the damage-redirect effect — specifically in creature-centric decks that need bodies to survive combat rather than trade off.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.99 bulk tier
At $0.99, Castle sits at the high end of bulk — you're paying a small premium for a genuinely narrow card. It holds that price through low supply and Commander-specific demand rather than broad playability, so don't expect it to climb.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.