Dimir Guildgate
Land — Gate
This land enters tapped.
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- CMC
- 0
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BU
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Commander 2013
- Price
- $0.24
- EDHREC rank
- #1682
Dimir Guildgate enters tapped — full stop — and that single line is the entire cost-benefit argument. In most Commander decks that cost is too high, but Nine-Fingers Keene turns the Gate subtype into a resource, making this one of the few contexts where a tapped dual earns its slot.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Nine-Fingers Keene
Nine-Fingers Keene tutors Gates directly onto the battlefield, so Dimir Guildgate isn't a consolation dual — it's a searchable piece of the engine that fuels Keene's power-counting and draw triggers.
Archelos, Lagoon Mystic
Archelos, Lagoon Mystic neutralizes the enter-tapped downside entirely when Archelos is face-down, turning Dimir Guildgate into a free dual that also synergizes with the deck's enter-tapped land subtheme.
Anowon, the Ruin Thief
Anowon, the Ruin Thief is a budget-friendly Dimir build at heart, and Dimir Guildgate slots in as cheap dual fixing for a strategy that cares more about connecting with rogues than hitting lands untapped.
Lazav, Dimir Mastermind
Lazav, Dimir Mastermind decks run Dimir Guildgate primarily for affordable color fixing — Lazav doesn't interact with the Gate subtype, so this is purely a budget land decision in the 20% of lists that include it.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Dimir Guildgate is a budget role-player — it does a job other lands do better, but it's legal, it's cheap, and the Gate subtype has genuine payoffs in the right shell. Outside Commander, the tapped downside is almost always disqualifying: Modern, Pioneer, and Legacy have access to fetchlands, shocklands, and fastlands that make a tapped dual a non-starter in any competitive context. Pauper is the one exception worth noting — Dimir Guildgate is common-legal and a legitimate budget option when you need black-blue fixing at the lowest possible floor. Everywhere else, it's a placeholder you swap out the moment a better dual is available.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.24 bulk tier
At $0.24, Dimir Guildgate is bulk — you're buying a land slot, not making a financial decision. The price is stable and unlikely to move meaningfully in either direction given the volume of reprints the Gate cycle has seen.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.