Glimmerpost
Land — Locus
When this land enters, you gain 1 life for each Locus on the battlefield.
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- CMC
- 0
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Modern Horizons 3 Commander
- Price
- $0.29
- EDHREC rank
- #6158
Glimmerpost enters, you gain 1 life per Locus you control — a negligible drain on deck space that compounds fast in the right shell. Omo, Queen of Vesuva turns every land into a Locus, at which point Glimmerpost's trigger scales with your entire board rather than a singleton count.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Omo, Queen of Vesuva
Omo, Queen of Vesuva's ability to stamp all lands as every basic type — including Locus — means Glimmerpost enters and immediately sees a full board of qualifying lands, turning a modest life-gain trigger into a double-digit swing as early as the midgame.
Orvar, the All-Form
Orvar, the All-Form can copy Glimmerpost whenever you target it with an instant or sorcery, and each copy enters, sees every existing Locus, and triggers independently — a clean life-gain pile that also happens to make your mana base wider.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Glimmerpost is a niche card with a specific home: Locus-matter builds, primarily Omo, Queen of Vesuva, where the life-gain trigger scales meaningfully. Outside that synergy, it's just a tapped land that gains 1 life, which is not a Commander-worthy rate. In Legacy and Vintage, Cloudpost strategies have historically used Glimmerpost as a life buffer against aggressive decks while assembling big-mana engines with Vesuvan Harbinger and Urza's Tower variants, though the archetype's relevance has faded. Pauper is where Glimmerpost sees its most competitive repetition, as Cloudpost-Tron lists lean on it to stabilize life totals against burn while Locus lands generate overwhelming mana.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.29 bulk tier
At $0.29, Glimmerpost is true bulk — grab a copy without thinking twice. Demand stays narrow enough that the price isn't going anywhere, but in the decks that want it, there's no cheaper way to buy the effect.
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Sources
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.