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Cloudshift

Instant

Exile target creature you control, then return that card to the battlefield under your control.

CMC
1
Mana cost
{W}
Color identity
W
Rarity
common
Set
The List
Price
$1.30
EDHREC rank
#799
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Cloudshift card art
Cloudshift blinks a creature you control for one white mana — exile it, return it immediately, and every enters-the-battlefield trigger fires again. At that cost, it's one of the most efficient ETB enablers in white, and commanders like Abdel Adrian, Gorion's Ward and Abigale, Eloquent First-Year run it at rates above 80% for exactly that reason.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Abigale, Eloquent First-Year

Abigale, Eloquent First-Year

83.9% of decks · synergy 0.78

Abigale, Eloquent First-Year cares about creatures entering the battlefield, and Cloudshift turns any one of them into a repeatable trigger on demand for a single mana — 84% inclusion says the synergy isn't subtle.

02
Abdel Adrian, Gorion's WardCandlekeep Sage

Abdel Adrian, Gorion's Ward // Candlekeep Sage

83.7% of decks · synergy 0.72

Abdel Adrian, Gorion's Ward exiles your own permanents when it enters, then returns them when it leaves — Cloudshift resets the entire loop for one mana, generating a fresh wave of ETB triggers at instant speed.

03
Zidane, Tantalus Thief

Zidane, Tantalus Thief

76.6% of decks · synergy 0.72

Zidane, Tantalus Thief wants creatures blinking in and out to stack its theft effects, and Cloudshift is the cheapest way to manufacture another trigger on your opponent's end step.

05
Mister Negative

Mister Negative

72.3% of decks · synergy 0.66

Mister Negative proliferates counters on ETB effects, and Cloudshift replays that trigger for one white mana — cheap enough to hold up while representing interaction.

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 legal
oathbreaker legal

Commander is where Cloudshift does its real work: a singleton format full of ETB-dependent creatures means a one-mana instant that resets any of them is almost always live. In Pauper it sees fringe play in blink shells, primarily to reset Mulldrifter or Stonehorn Dignitary, but the density of payoffs is lower and the competition for slots is real. Modern has access to more powerful blink effects at comparable cost, so Cloudshift rarely makes the cut outside of budget builds. Legacy and Vintage are legal but uninterested — the card is simply too small-scale for those environments. Pioneer and Standard are non-issues; it's not legal in either.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

14,082 decks
Preston, the VanisherFelidar GuardianCloudshift

Preston, the VanisherFelidar GuardianCloudshift

Infinite LTB; Infinite ETB; Infinite creature tokens; Infinite landfall triggers; Infinite blinking of permanents; Infinite mana lands you control that enter the battlefield untapped can produce; Exile all nonland permanents opponents control; Infinite mana lands you control can produce

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Price Context

Current price

$1.30 cheap tier

At $1.30, Cloudshift sits in the cheap tier — low enough that the cost-to-impact ratio is almost always positive when you have even one ETB creature to target. That price has stayed flat because supply is wide and demand is spread across casual Commander tables rather than concentrated in any high-stakes format.

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