Eye of Ojer Taq // Apex Observatory

Artifact // Artifact

{T}: Add one mana of any color.
Craft with two that share a card type {6} ({6}, Exile this artifact, Exile the two from among other permanents you control and/or cards from your graveyard: Return this card transformed under its owner's control. Craft only as a sorcery.)

CMC
3
Mana cost
{3}
Color identity
C
Rarity
mythic
Set
The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander
Price
$1.09
EDHREC rank
#12140
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Eye of Ojer Taq // Apex Observatory card art
Eye of Ojer Taq // Apex Observatory triples every token you create — not doubles, triples — and its front face doubles as a mana rock that flips into a land when Tetzin, Gnome Champion assembles his artifact engine. The cost is steep at five mana for a 3/3, but the payoff is so disproportionate in token strategies that the rate barely matters once it's online.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

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Tetzin, Gnome Champion

63.2% of decks · synergy 0.62

Tetzin, Gnome Champion's token-generating artifact synergies become obscene with Eye of Ojer Taq // Apex Observatory on the battlefield — every token Tetzin produces from his triggered ability gets replaced with three, turning a modest board state into a lethal flood of artifacts in a single combat step.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander
legacy
modern
pioneer
standard
vintage
pauper
oathbreaker

Eye of Ojer Taq // Apex Observatory is a Commander card through and through — the token tripling only reaches its ceiling in a 100-card singleton environment where opponents can't prepare for it across 60-card redundancy. Legacy and Vintage are legal homes on paper, but neither format has the token-go-wide shells that justify five mana for an enchantment creature with no immediate protection. Commander is where this card does exactly what it promises: one resolved Eye warps the entire game state around whoever controls it.

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Price Context

Current price

$1.09 cheap tier

At $1.09, Eye of Ojer Taq // Apex Observatory is dramatically underpriced for what it does — tripling tokens is a unique effect with no close functional replacement in Commander. Demand from Tetzin builds and token strategies broadly should keep it from dropping further, and any spike in token-commander popularity could push it well above this floor.

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