Daze
Instant
You may return an Island you control to its owner's hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Counter target spell unless its controller pays 
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- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Duel Decks: Jace vs. Chandra
- Price
- $2.60
- EDHREC rank
- #3379
Daze counters a spell for free — bounce an Island back to hand instead of paying one blue mana — and that zero-mana ceiling is exactly why it shows up in decks like Rograkh, Son of Rohgahh // Silas Renn, Seeker Adept that want to deploy their commander on turn one and keep mana up for protection without skipping a beat. The cost is real: late in a game, returning a land undoes tempo you can't recover, so Daze is a card for fast, proactive shells, not midrange goodstuff piles.
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 | banned |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Daze is legal in Legacy, Vintage, Commander, and Oathbreaker — the formats where its speed matters most — and banned in Pauper, where free interaction at common rarity warped the format badly enough to warrant removal. It's absent from Modern and Pioneer entirely, never having been printed into either card pool. In Commander, the singleton rule and 40-life totals usually punish free counterspells that require a land bounce, since games go long and land drops become scarce; Daze is the exception because the decks that want it — low-curve, combo-forward builds that storm off in the first few turns — don't care about the late-game tax, they just need to protect a key piece on turn two.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Rograkh, Son of Rohgahh // Silas Renn, Seeker Adept
Rograkh, Son of Rohgahh // Silas Renn, Seeker Adept is a zero-mana commander that lives in the red zone before most decks get going, and Daze slots in as free interaction that lets the pilot tap out for a threat while still holding protection — 67% of these decks run it for exactly that reason.
Kediss, Emberclaw Familiar // Malcolm, Keen-Eyed Navigator
Kediss, Emberclaw Familiar // Malcolm, Keen-Eyed Navigator runs a tempo-pirate gameplan where connecting with combat triggers has to happen early and often, and Daze buys the deck those critical attack windows by nullifying interaction without spending mana that needs to go toward evasive threats.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$2.60 cheap tier
At $2.60, Daze sits at the cheap end of Legacy-playable counterspells — easy to pick up for any blue Commander deck that wants it. It's a long-printing common with wide circulation, so don't expect the price to spike; it's a role-player you buy once and sleeve into multiple decks.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Rograkh, Son of Rohgahh // Silas Renn, Seeker Adept
- Kediss, Emberclaw Familiar // Malcolm, Keen-Eyed Navigator
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.