Cori Mountain Monastery
Land
This land enters tapped unless you control a Plains or an Island.
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, : Exile the top card of your library. Until the end of your next turn, you may play that card.
- CMC
- 0
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Tarkir: Dragonstorm Promos
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #3939
Cori Mountain Monastery enters tapped but replaces itself with a 1/1 Monk token, meaning it trades one mana of tempo for a body on the board. In Gwen Stacy and similar token-matters builds, that's a net positive — you're not just playing a land, you're advancing your board state.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Gwen Stacy
Gwen Stacy wants a steady stream of small bodies to sacrifice and trigger her damage-doubling punishment loop, and Cori Mountain Monastery delivers one for free the turn it lands — nearly half of all Gwen Stacy decks run it for exactly that reason.
Fire Lord Zuko
Fire Lord Zuko cares about dealing combat damage and going wide, and Cori Mountain Monastery slots in as a land that doubles as a free attacker, letting the deck hit token thresholds without spending a spell slot.
Pia Nalaar, Consul of Revival
Pia Nalaar, Consul of Revival churns out artifacts and tokens to fuel sacrifice and revolt effects, and Cori Mountain Monastery is one of the cleanest ways to generate a token at zero spell investment — it's a land slot doing two jobs.
Laelia, the Blade Reforged
Laelia, the Blade Reforged exiles cards from the top of the library and grows whenever spells are cast from exile, so the appeal of Cori Mountain Monastery here is simpler: red decks that go wide can use the Monk as an extra attacker without diluting their spell density.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Cori Mountain Monastery earns its slot in any red or Mardu strategy that rewards token production — the enter-tapped drawback barely registers when the token it generates advances your board plan. In competitive 60-card formats like Modern and Pioneer, a tapped land that produces a 1/1 is almost never worth the tempo loss unless you're running a dedicated landfall or token synergy shell. Legacy and Vintage have enough broken acceleration that a land this slow is a non-starter outside fringe brews. Standard is where it could see the most casual 60-card play, particularly in aggressive token decks that can afford one or two tapped sources.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
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Pricing data for Cori Mountain Monastery isn't currently available, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for the latest figures before buying. Given that it's a functional utility land with strong Commander demand in token strategies, it's worth picking up if you find it at bulk prices.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.