Coral Colony
Creature — Wall
Defender
, 
: Target player mills X cards, where X is the number of creatures you control with defender. (To mill a card, a player puts the top card of their library into their graveyard.)
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Dominaria United
- Price
- $0.24
- EDHREC rank
- #16437
Coral Colony puts a 0/1 Defender on the board and taps to add one blue mana — a wall that doubles as ramp, which is a real two-for-one in the right shell. The cost is that both halves are underpowered in isolation: a 0/1 that can't attack and one mana is nowhere near rate unless you're building around defenders or need that specific blue source.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Pramikon, Sky Rampart
Pramikon, Sky Rampart builds a Defender-centric wall deck that wants both the body blocking in the right direction and the blue mana source, making Coral Colony a natural fit — it stalls aggression from the politically correct opponent while keeping Pramikon's mana engine running.
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 |
Coral Colony is a Commander card through and through. In 60-card formats — Modern, Pioneer, Legacy — a 0/1 Defender that taps for one mana is too slow and too fragile to see real play when Arcum's Astrolabe, Lotus Petal, and actual ramp exist. In Commander, the combination of a body that blocks and a mana source matters most in Defender-tribal builds or political stax shells like Pramikon, Sky Rampart, where the 0/1 has a structural role rather than just sitting there. Outside those specific archetypes, even in Commander, Coral Colony is a fringe inclusion.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.24 bulk tier
At $0.24, Coral Colony is bulk — you're paying almost nothing to try it. Bulk commons don't tend to climb unless a breakout Commander deck puts them on the radar, and nothing on the horizon suggests that spike is coming.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Pramikon, Sky Rampart
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.