Gravity Sphere
World Enchantment
All creatures lose flying.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Legends
- Price
- $50.93
- EDHREC rank
- #24225
Gravity Sphere grounds every flying creature on the board the moment it resolves — it's a one-sided Moat for your opponents if you're playing a ground-based strategy, and a hard lock piece if you're building around it. Three mana for a permanent, symmetry-breaking stax effect is the rate; the card earns it.
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 |
Gravity Sphere is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker — and Commander is the only format where it sees meaningful play. In Legacy and Vintage the card is simply too slow and too narrow; dedicated flier-hate doesn't compete with the raw efficiency of those formats. In Commander, Gravity Sphere slots cleanly into ground-based stax, dragon-punishing control, or any deck that wins through combat and wants flying blockers off the table permanently. Oathbreaker is a real home too, particularly in aggressive red shells that can capitalize on a locked-down sky.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Gravity SphereIsland Sanctuary
Most creatures can't attack you; You do not draw cards during your draw steps; Lock
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Gravity SphereStormtide Leviathan
Creatures without islandwalk cannot attack
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Cheaper options that do most of the same work
Clip Wings and Cosmotronic Wave handle flying threats in the moment but offer no ongoing pressure — they're answers, not engines. If the goal is a permanent, repeatable effect, Gravity Sphere doesn't have a true budget analogue; the closest option is Grounded, which costs a single green mana but only targets one creature, making it a spot-removal substitute rather than a replacement for the board-wide stax piece Gravity Sphere provides.
Price Context
Current price
$50.93 premium tier
At $50.93, Gravity Sphere sits firmly in the premium tier — a price driven by age, limited supply, and the fact that its effect has never been reprinted on a comparably efficient card. It holds value precisely because no cheaper substitute does the same job at a permanent, board-wide level.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Moat
- Form of the Dragon
- Island Sanctuary
- Magus of the Moat
- Stormtide Leviathan
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.