Dream Thrush
Creature — Bird
Flying
: Target land becomes the basic land type of your choice until end of turn.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- The List
- Price
- $0.10
- EDHREC rank
- #24134
Dream Thrush is a 1/1 flier that taps to change a land's basic land type until end of turn — useful for color-fixing or enabling land-type synergies, but occupying a creature slot for what is essentially a mana utility piece. Outside of niche land-type payoffs, a Birds of Paradise or similar does the job better without burning a card slot on a 1/1.
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 |
Dream Thrush sees essentially zero competitive play in Legacy and Vintage, where one-mana utility creatures need to do far more than recolor a land for a turn. In Pauper, it's legal but outclassed by straightforward mana dorks and color-fixers. Commander is the only format where Dream Thrush can find a home, and only in decks that specifically care about land types — think Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth synergies, Nightmare-style payoffs, or landfall loops that reward specific basic types. Even there, it's a fringe inclusion rather than a staple.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.10 bulk tier
At $0.10, Dream Thrush is pure bulk — you're not buying it for any reason other than a specific deck that needs exactly this effect. It will not appreciate; there's no meaningful demand driver, and any reprint would push it lower still.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.