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Dissipation Field

Enchantment

Whenever a permanent deals damage to you, return it to its owner's hand.

CMC
4
Mana cost
{2}{U}{U}
Color identity
U
Rarity
rare
Set
Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate
Price
$2.25
EDHREC rank
#4218
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Dissipation Field card art
Dissipation Field turns your board into a soft-lock: anything that deals damage to you bounces back to its owner's hand, taxing aggro decks and resetting creatures that triggered on entry. The cost is that it does nothing proactive — you're paying four mana for a deterrent, and any opponent who can attack with something they want to replay will happily do so. Run it in decks that punish re-entry or genuinely want opponents touching their own creatures, like Zedruu the Greathearted gift packages or Firkraag, Cunning Instigator goading engines.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Firkraag, Cunning Instigator

Firkraag, Cunning Instigator

45.2% of decks · synergy 0.44

Firkraag, Cunning Instigator goads your opponents' creatures into attacking you, then Dissipation Field bounces them back to hand — every goaded attacker becomes a repeatable enters-the-battlefield reset that denies your opponents their best threats while fueling Firkraag's experience counter triggers.

02
Jon Irenicus, Shattered One

Jon Irenicus, Shattered One

34.9% of decks · synergy 0.33

Jon Irenicus, Shattered One donates creatures to opponents, and Dissipation Field ensures that when those donated creatures deal combat damage to you, they bounce — stranding the gift in hand and forcing opponents to re-cast, potentially losing Jon's curse counters mid-swing.

03
Kami of the Crescent Moon

Kami of the Crescent Moon

22.2% of decks · synergy 0.19

Kami of the Crescent Moon wants opponents drawing extra cards and staying in the game rather than threatening combat, so Dissipation Field slots in as a passive deterrent that punishes anyone who attacks anyway by bouncing their creature and undoing their board development.

04
Red Death, Shipwrecker

Red Death, Shipwrecker

17.0% of decks · synergy 0.16

Red Death, Shipwrecker forces opponents to attack each other, and Dissipation Field adds a secondary layer: any creature that redirects into you instead gets bounced, protecting Red Death's controller while keeping the chaos engine running.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Dissipation Field is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but it's essentially a Commander card — the singleton format's longer games and creature-heavy metas are the only context where a four-mana do-nothing enchantment earns its slot. In Legacy and Vintage, the card is technically playable but wildly outclassed; no competitive deck at those tables is investing four mana in a passive deterrent when counterspells exist. Modern is the same story — the format moves too fast for Dissipation Field's tempo cost to pay off before the game is already decided. Commander is where the effect matters, specifically in decks that can weaponize the bounce rather than just absorbing it.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$2.25 cheap tier

At $2.25, Dissipation Field sits in the cheap tier — low enough that budget is never the reason to skip it. It's a niche card with a narrow fit, so the price is unlikely to climb without a high-profile reprint pairing or a breakout combo deck, but at this cost you're not taking a risk picking one up for the right shell.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.