Elemental Resonance
Enchantment — Aura
Enchant permanent
At the beginning of your first main phase, add mana equal to enchanted permanent's mana cost. (Mana cost includes color. If a mana symbol has multiple colors, choose one.)
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Dissension
- Price
- $2.34
- EDHREC rank
- #19523
Elemental Resonance turns your commander's mana cost into a repeating mana engine — enchant it, and every upkeep you generate mana equal to its color symbols, tapped and waiting. The catch is a full turn of delay and the enchantment's total dependence on your commander staying in play, which makes it dead weight the moment the board answers your general.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Elemental Resonance is a Commander card — full stop. The mechanic of generating mana equal to your commander's color symbols is only meaningful when you have a single, recurring legendary creature anchoring the game, and formats like Legacy, Modern, and Vintage offer neither that structure nor the time needed for a do-nothing enchantment to pay off. In Commander, it ranges from mediocre to genuinely powerful depending entirely on the commander it targets: a two-pip mono-color general like Krenko, Mob Boss makes it underwhelming, while a five-pip behemoth makes Elemental Resonance one of the most efficient mana engines in the 99. Oathbreaker is a reasonable home for the same reason Commander is — a central permanent with fixed color pips — though the lower starting life total and faster pace mean you need a pip-heavy planeswalker to justify the slot.
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Price Context
Current price
$2.34 cheap tier
At $2.34, Elemental Resonance sits in budget territory for a Commander-legal enchantment with a unique effect and no direct functional reprint. The price is fair and unlikely to crater — narrow design space and consistent demand from high-pip commander builds keep a floor under it.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.