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Gift of Paradise

Enchantment — Aura

Enchant land
When this Aura enters, you gain 3 life.
Enchanted land has "{T}: Add two mana of any one color."

CMC
3
Mana cost
{2}{G}
Color identity
G
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Core Set 2019
Price
$0.08
EDHREC rank
#6471
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Gift of Paradise card art
Gift of Paradise puts a land ahead on mana immediately and leaves a 2-life buffer that can matter in aggressive metas — the cost is three mana, which is a real ask when you could be playing something that untaps with Arbor Elf. Run it when you specifically want enchantments on lands, either for Estrid, the Masked synergy or because your deck doubles down on aura-based engines.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Estrid, the Masked

Estrid, the Masked

35.6% of decks · synergy 0.35

Gift of Paradise is exactly the kind of land-aura Estrid, the Masked wants stacked on a basic — her +2 untaps every enchanted permanent, so a single enchanted land with Gift of Paradise on it becomes a mana engine the moment Estrid hits the board.

02
Thrun, Breaker of Silence

Thrun, Breaker of Silence

17.4% of decks · synergy 0.17

Thrun, Breaker of Silence is a voltron commander hunting for ways to push through commander damage fast, and Gift of Paradise pulls double duty by ramping into Thrun ahead of curve while putting an aura on a land that doesn't expose Thrun himself to enchantment-based removal.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

In Commander, Gift of Paradise occupies a narrow niche: it's ramp, but three mana for one additional mana is a bad rate unless the enchantment subtype matters to your commander or engine. Pauper is where it sees the most competitive daylight, slotting into slow enchantment-based control shells that can leverage the life gain as a stabilization tool. In Modern and Pioneer it's essentially unplayable — those formats move too fast for a three-mana do-nothing unless a specific combo demands a land-aura, and no such combo is currently pressuring those metagames. Legacy and Vintage have far more efficient options and Gift of Paradise is invisible there. Stick to Commander and Pauper when considering it.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.08 bulk tier

At $0.08, Gift of Paradise is deep bulk — you're picking it out of a common box, not buying it. Price stability is essentially a non-issue at this tier; it will remain a quarter-bin card unless a new commander pushes land-aura synergies into the mainstream.

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