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Erratic Portal

Artifact

{1}, {T}: Return target creature to its owner's hand unless its controller pays {1}.

CMC
4
Mana cost
{4}
Color identity
C
Rarity
rare
Set
Tempest Remastered
Price
—
EDHREC rank
#9179
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Erratic Portal card art
Erratic Portal lets you bounce any creature at instant speed for one generic mana — the catch is a coin flip that can deny the activation entirely. In the right shell, that unreliability is a feature: Archaeomancer resets your graveyard every time it re-enters, and Massacre Girl wipes the board again every time she does.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Massacre Girl

Massacre Girl

12.5% of decks · synergy 0.12

Massacre Girl's wipe trigger fires every time she enters the battlefield, and Erratic Portal is one of the cheapest ways to pick her up at instant speed and recast her — clearing the board on demand as long as you have mana to spare.

02
Tannuk, Steadfast Second

Tannuk, Steadfast Second

11.0% of decks · synergy 0.10

Tannuk, Steadfast Second rewards repeated enters-the-battlefield triggers, and Erratic Portal provides a repeatable, low-cost bounce outlet that keeps the value engine running through multiple cycles per turn cycle.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern not legal
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Commander is where Erratic Portal earns its slot — the format's long games and ETB-heavy creature suites make the bounce ability consistently valuable, and the coin flip matters less when you have multiple activations available. In Legacy and Vintage, the card is legal but essentially unplayed; both formats move too fast for a three-mana artifact that might do nothing on the flip. Erratic Portal is not legal in Modern, Pioneer, Standard, or Pauper, so Commander and Oathbreaker are the realistic homes.

Key Combos

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Price Context

Current price

unknown tier

Current price data for Erratic Portal isn't available in this snapshot, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for up-to-date figures. It's a niche artifact with a narrow competitive home, which historically keeps the ceiling low — worth picking up if you're building the deck, not as a spec.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.