Dream Coat
Enchantment — Aura
Enchant creature
: Enchanted creature becomes the color or colors of your choice. Activate only once each turn.
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Legends
- Price
- $2.47
- EDHREC rank
- #27136
Dream Coat turns any creature into an on-demand color-changer for a single blue mana, and the ability is reusable as long as you keep paying — that's the whole card. The ceiling is narrow but high: in builds that specifically need a permanent to be a chosen color at instant speed, Dream Coat does the job cheaper than almost anything, and pairing it with Seedcradle Witch shows exactly how abusable the repeated activation can get.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Dream Coat is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, and Commander is the only format where it sees any real play. Legacy and Vintage have no meaningful shell for it — color-changing is rarely a competitive axis in those formats, and the card doesn't replace anything. In Commander, Dream Coat lives in niche combo decks that need a repeatable color-assignment tool, typically to satisfy a triggered or activated condition on another permanent turn after turn. Oathbreaker is legal but the pool is small enough that the same narrow combo homes apply.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Seedcradle WitchBloom TenderDream Coat
Infinite black mana; Infinite blue mana; Infinitely large creature until end of turn; Infinite red mana; Infinite mana of colors among permanents you control
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Seedcradle WitchFaeburrow ElderDream Coat
Infinite black mana; Infinite blue mana; Infinitely large creature until end of turn; Infinite red mana; Infinite mana of colors among permanents you control
View on Commander Spellbook ↗Price Context
Current price
$2.47 cheap tier
At $2.47, Dream Coat sits in cheap territory for a card with a genuinely small target audience. It holds that price on scarcity and combo demand rather than broad appeal, so don't expect it to move much in either direction.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.