Elsewhere Flask
Artifact
When this artifact enters, draw a card.
Sacrifice this artifact: Choose a basic land type. Each land you control becomes that type until end of turn.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- The Brothers' War Retro Artifacts
- Price
- $0.25
- EDHREC rank
- #11714
Elsewhere Flask draws a card on entry and converts all your basic lands to a chosen type — relevant fixing and cantrip value stapled onto a single two-mana artifact. It earns its slot specifically in decks that care about land type matters or need one more artifact to trigger an effect, not as a generic cantrip in every pile.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Gandalf the White
Gandalf the White triggers whenever you cast an instant or artifact spell with the highest mana value among spells cast this turn, and Elsewhere Flask at two mana is cheap enough to slip under most stacks — making it a reliable trigger piece that replaces itself with a card draw and leaves behind land-type fixing.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Elsewhere Flask earns consideration in artifact-synergy decks, landfall-adjacent builds that care about basic land types, and any deck running Gandalf the White that wants cheap cantripping artifacts. In Pauper it sees occasional play in artifact-based combo or fixing shells where two mana for a cantrip plus land-type manipulation clears the bar. Legacy and Vintage have cantrips that do far more for the same or less mana, so Elsewhere Flask is invisible there. It's not legal in Pioneer or Standard, which keeps its demand narrow.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.25 bulk tier
At $0.25, Elsewhere Flask is bulk — pick up copies without thinking about it. Narrow demand from a specific Commander niche means the price is unlikely to move meaningfully in either direction.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.