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Cloud of Faeries

Creature — Faerie

Flying
When this creature enters, untap up to two lands.
Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

CMC
2
Mana cost
{1}{U}
Color identity
U
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Vintage Masters
Price
—
EDHREC rank
#1402
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Cloud of Faeries card art
Cloud of Faeries enters, untaps two lands, and replaces itself with a 1/1 flier — all for one blue mana with Convoke available to shave even that cost. In any shell that blinks or bounces creatures repeatedly, most notably alongside Deadeye Navigator, it generates mana and board presence simultaneously; Obyra, Dreaming Duelist decks run it at nearly 80% inclusion because the faerie type alone earns it a slot before the land untap even matters.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern not legal
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper banned
oathbreaker legal

Cloud of Faeries is legal in Legacy, Vintage, Commander, and Oathbreaker, but it is banned in Pauper — the one format where the untap trigger proved too easy to chain into infinite mana with common bounce effects at common rarity. Modern, Pioneer, and Standard never had access to it. Commander gives Cloud of Faeries a clean pass because the singleton rule and 100-card dilution make assembling the broken loops far less consistent, and a single 1/1 flier that untaps two lands is fair game when you need eight or more moving parts to go infinite.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Obyra, Dreaming Duelist

Obyra, Dreaming Duelist

79.5% of decks · synergy 0.75

Obyra, Dreaming Duelist triggers on every faerie cast, and Cloud of Faeries is a faerie that effectively costs nothing in an untap-land engine — casting it drains an opponent and recoups the mana, making every blink or bounce loop a damage source as well.

02
Thrasios, Triton HeroYoshimaru, Ever Faithful

Thrasios, Triton Hero // Yoshimaru, Ever Faithful

69.2% of decks · synergy 0.66

Thrasios, Triton Hero // Yoshimaru, Ever Faithful runs Cloud of Faeries as a piece of the infinite-mana package, where a blink loop with the faerie generates the colorless mana Thrasios needs to draw and replay the entire library.

03
Tegwyll, Duke of Splendor

Tegwyll, Duke of Splendor

70.3% of decks · synergy 0.66

Tegwyll, Duke of Splendor wants every faerie it can find, and Cloud of Faeries earns extra value by drawing a card off Tegwyll's trigger when it enters while still untapping two lands to float mana into the next spell.

04
Edric, Spymaster of Trest

Edric, Spymaster of Trest

63.9% of decks · synergy 0.62

Edric, Spymaster of Trest rewards attacking with small evasive creatures, and Cloud of Faeries is a free-to-cast flier that attacks profitably the turn it enters — drawing a card through Edric's ability recouping its own slot in hand.

05
Abdel Adrian, Gorion's WardCandlekeep Sage

Abdel Adrian, Gorion's Ward // Candlekeep Sage

56.6% of decks · synergy 0.52

Abdel Adrian, Gorion's Ward // Candlekeep Sage blinks its own permanents as a matter of course, and Cloud of Faeries turns every blink trigger into two untapped lands, compressing the mana math needed to chain activations each turn.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

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Displacer KittenEternal WitnessLotus PetalSnapCloud of Faeries

Displacer KittenEternal WitnessLotus PetalSnapCloud of Faeries

Infinite LTB; Infinite ETB; Infinite colored mana; Infinite storm count; Infinite magecraft triggers; Return all creatures you don't control to their owner's hand; Infinite mana lands you control can produce; Infinite untap of lands you control

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Price Context

Current price

unknown tier

Current pricing data for Cloud of Faeries isn't available in this snapshot, so check Scryfall or your preferred retailer for the live number. Given its ban history in Pauper and steady demand across combo-oriented Commander builds, it has historically held a modest premium over bulk — worth confirming before you buy or trade for copies.

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