Gateway Plaza
Land — Gate
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, sacrifice it unless you pay 
.
: Add one mana of any color.
- CMC
- 0
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Ravnica Allegiance
- Price
- $0.34
- EDHREC rank
- #2478
Gateway Plaza enters tapped and costs a mana to do it — that's a two-turn tempo hit that no five-color deck should accept without a reason. The reason is Nine-Fingers Keene or Scaretiller: once you're recuring it repeatedly, a Gate that taps for any color stops being a liability and starts being an engine piece.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Nine-Fingers Keene
Nine-Fingers Keene cares about Gates specifically, and Gateway Plaza is one of the cheapest ways to hit the Gate subtype while producing any color of mana — 94% of Keene decks run it for exactly that reason.
Archelos, Lagoon Mystic
Archelos, Lagoon Mystic turns off the enter-tapped penalty that makes Gateway Plaza painful everywhere else, letting you treat it as a free five-color fixer with no downside.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Gateway Plaza sees essentially zero play outside Commander, and within Commander it's nearly a Gate-tribal exclusive. In Pauper it's legal but outclassed — the format's best fixing doesn't enter tapped and doesn't cost a mana on top of it. Modern and Pioneer have access to fetchlands, shocklands, and triomes that make Gateway Plaza a non-starter in any serious manabase. The card's entire competitive identity lives inside Nine-Fingers Keene decks, where the Gate type is the point and the mana pip cost is a known trade-off rather than a hidden cost.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
ScaretillerRetreat to CoralhelmGateway PlazaUrza, Lord High Artificer
Infinite blue mana; Infinite landfall triggers; Cast all spells in your library; Exile your library
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ScaretillerRetreat to CoralhelmGateway PlazaPresence of Gond
Infinite creature tokens; Infinite ETB; Infinite landfall triggers
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Current price
$0.34 bulk tier
At $0.34, Gateway Plaza is bulk — the kind of card you pull from a common box rather than buy. It's been reprinted enough times that the price has nowhere meaningful to go, so pick it up for pennies when you need it and don't think twice about it.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.