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Extraplanar Lens

Artifact

Imprint — When this artifact enters, you may exile target land you control.
Whenever a land with the same name as the exiled card is tapped for mana, its controller adds one mana of any type that land produced.

CMC
3
Mana cost
{3}
Color identity
C
Rarity
mythic
Set
Commander Masters
Price
$10.44
EDHREC rank
#1719
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Extraplanar Lens card art
Extraplanar Lens doubles your mana production from basic lands — that's the whole case, and it's strong enough to warp what mono-color decks can do on turns 4 and 5. The exile-on-entry cost and the symmetry risk are real, but in dedicated mono-color builds like Ashling the Pilgrim or Palinchron loops, the upside dwarfs both downsides.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Ashling the Pilgrim

Ashling the Pilgrim

25.3% of decks · synergy 0.19

Ashling the Pilgrim runs on Mountains, and Extraplanar Lens turns every one of them into a two-mana land — letting Ashling pump faster and hit her damage threshold multiple turns ahead of schedule.

02
Kami of the Crescent Moon

Kami of the Crescent Moon

23.5% of decks · synergy 0.15

Kami of the Crescent Moon wants to flood the table with mana and card draw, and Extraplanar Lens is one of the cleanest ways to produce enough blue mana to keep that engine running while opponents are still catching up.

03
Electro, Assaulting Battery

Electro, Assaulting Battery

20.4% of decks · synergy 0.14

Electro, Assaulting Battery needs repeated activations and a high mana ceiling to close games, and Extraplanar Lens supplies exactly that by turning a clutch of basic lands into a mana engine that funds multiple abilities in a single turn.

04
Omnath, Locus of Mana

Omnath, Locus of Mana

14.8% of decks · synergy 0.13

Omnath, Locus of Mana banks unspent green mana as permanent power, so Extraplanar Lens effectively doubles how much Omnath grows each turn — making each Forest pay dividends both on the stack and in the combat step.

05
Gogo, Master of Mimicry

Gogo, Master of Mimicry

21.3% of decks · synergy 0.13

Gogo, Master of Mimicry copies things and wants the mana to do it repeatedly and at instant speed; Extraplanar Lens provides the surplus that lets Gogo fire off abilities without rationing every land drop.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Commander is where Extraplanar Lens earns its slot — mono-color decks are common, the symmetry risk is manageable when you're the only red or green deck at the table, and the mana doubling compounds fast enough to define a game. In Legacy and Vintage, it's legal but irrelevant; formats that can generate comparable mana through broken spells or free artifacts have no reason to pay three mana for a land-dependent doubler. Oathbreaker can support it in mono-color shells for the same reasons Commander does, though the smaller format and faster goldfish make the setup cost hurt more. Extraplanar Lens doesn't touch Pioneer, Standard, or Pauper.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Budget Alternatives

Cheaper options that do most of the same work

Caged Sun and Gauntlet of Power both double mana from a basic land type and cost $2–4, making either a reasonable stand-in for Extraplanar Lens — the trade-off is that both stay on the battlefield flagging your intentions without the exile-based stealth, and Caged Sun adds a power/toughness pump that's occasionally relevant. If you want a truly budget option under $1, Magus of the Library doesn't replicate the effect, so the honest answer is that nothing cheap does exactly what Extraplanar Lens does; Caged Sun is the closest alternative worth running.

Price Context

Current price

$10.44 mid tier

At $10.44, Extraplanar Lens sits in the mid tier — expensive enough to feel like a deliberate inclusion, not so expensive that it's out of reach for a focused build. It's a decades-old artifact with consistent demand from mono-color Commander players, so the price reflects a stable floor rather than speculative hype.

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