Cryptic Spires
Land
As you create your deck, circle two of the colors below.
This land enters tapped.
: Add one mana of either of the circled colors.
- CMC
- 0
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- The List
- Price
- $0.17
- EDHREC rank
- #10274
Cryptic Spires enters tapped and produces two colors of your choice — a simple, reliable fix for multicolor Commander decks that need to hit specific pips without paying a premium. The cost is real: no untapped mode, no upside beyond fixing, which makes it a baseline include rather than an exciting one.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Cryptic Spires is a Commander card through and through — three- and four-color decks tolerate a tapped land more easily when the fixing is unconditional, and the singleton format means every dual counts. In Pauper it competes in a crowded fixing slot where the format's aggressive curves make an enters-tapped land genuinely painful, so it sees fringe play at best. Legacy and Vintage have access to fetchlands and dual lands that make Cryptic Spires irrelevant in any serious build. The card's real home is the Commander player who wants clean two-color fixing without spending on shocklands or checklands.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.17 bulk tier
At $0.17, Cryptic Spires is deep bulk — a pick-up-from-the-common-box card that costs less than a sleeve. That price is stable; there's no demand driver that would push it up, and it's widely available enough that it won't disappear from the market.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.