Flooded Shoreline
Enchantment
, Return two Islands you control to their owner's hand: Return target creature to its owner's hand.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Visions
- Price
- $0.90
- EDHREC rank
- #20268
Flooded Shoreline returns target creature to its owner's hand by tapping two untapped Islands you control — cheap interaction that doubles as a soft bounce engine in any blue deck that runs enough basics. The catch is real: it's sorcery-speed and demands you leave mana open, which means it competes directly with your own game plan every turn.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Flooded Shoreline occupies a narrow niche: it's best in dedicated Islands-matter builds where tapping two basics is painless rather than punishing. Legacy and Vintage have access to it but won't touch it — faster, harder interaction exists at the same or lower mana investment, and those formats punish opportunity cost ruthlessly. Oathbreaker is the one fringe home outside Commander where a permanent bounce engine on an enchantment could matter, specifically in blue control shells with a high Island count. Flooded Shoreline is a Commander card through and through, and even there it needs the right shell to justify the slot.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.90 bulk tier
At $0.90, Flooded Shoreline sits at the top of bulk pricing — cheap enough to pick up on spec for any Islands-matter build without a second thought. It's an obscure enchantment with a narrow home, so don't expect the price to move meaningfully in either direction.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.