Eluge, the Shoreless Sea
Legendary Creature — Elemental Fish
Eluge's power and toughness are each equal to the number of Islands you control.
Whenever Eluge enters or attacks, put a flood counter on target land. It's an Island in addition to its other types for as long as it has a flood counter on it.
The first instant or sorcery spell you cast each turn costs 
(or 
) less to cast for each land you control with a flood counter on it.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- mythic
- Set
- Bloomburrow
- Price
- $6.83
- EDHREC rank
- #3068
Eluge, the Shoreless Sea is a free 8/8 with ward that turns every Island you control into a threat — the cost is running a mono-blue deck willing to go wide with lands. Xolatoyac, the Smiling Flood aside, almost no other commander extracts full value from the land-creature clause, which makes Eluge a narrow but devastating include in the decks that want it.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Xolatoyac, the Smiling Flood
Xolatoyac, the Smiling Flood is the premier home for Eluge, the Shoreless Sea — Xolatoyac floods the board with land tokens, and Eluge turns every one of those Islands into an 8/8 attacker on top of its own body.
Katara, Waterbending Master
Katara, Waterbending Master cares about casting spells with Island walk and water-themed synergies, and Eluge, the Shoreless Sea slots in as a massive payoff that also makes the battlefield harder to navigate for opponents running blue.
The Watcher in the Water
The Watcher in the Water builds around tentacle tokens and big Kraken threats, and Eluge, the Shoreless Sea lands as an additional imposing body that rewards the deck's natural Island density.
Baral, Chief of Compliance
Baral, Chief of Compliance runs enough Islands to reliably animate Eluge, the Shoreless Sea as an 8/8 with ward while the overall counterspell strategy keeps Eluge alive long enough to matter.
The Mindskinner
The Mindskinner mills opponents and wants to stay on the board safely — Eluge, the Shoreless Sea provides a ward-protected body that scales with the Islands a mono-blue shell naturally accumulates.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Eluge, the Shoreless Sea is a Commander card at its core — the payoff scales with land count and game length in ways that only a 100-card singleton format rewards. In Standard, Pioneer, and Modern it competes with faster and more immediately impactful threats, and the Island-animation clause rarely gets to trigger more than once before the game ends. Legacy and Vintage move too fast for a five-mana creature with no enters-the-battlefield effect to see play. Commander is where Eluge lives: late-game mana floods become threats, ward taxes slow down removal-heavy tables, and the free-cast condition is achievable in a format that hands you turns to sculpt your board.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Budget Alternatives
Cheaper options that do most of the same work
Stormtide Leviathan fills a similar 'mono-blue finisher that punishes non-blue opponents' role for around $1 and can effectively lock down combat, though it doesn't animate your lands or offer the ward protection Eluge, the Shoreless Sea provides. Serpent of Yawning Depths is another cheap option that rewards Island density with evasion, but neither replacement matches Eluge's combination of a free cast condition and scaling board presence.
Price Context
Current price
$6.83 mid tier
At $6.83, Eluge, the Shoreless Sea sits in the mid tier — reasonable for a mythic with a unique effect that sees play in several popular commanders. Given its narrow color-identity requirement and the fact that it's still relatively new, the price reflects genuine demand rather than hype, and it's unlikely to crater unless direct reprints appear.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Xolatoyac, the Smiling Flood
- Katara, Waterbending Master
- The Watcher in the Water
- Baral, Chief of Compliance
- The Mindskinner
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.