Gravity Well
Enchantment
Whenever a creature with flying attacks, it loses flying until end of turn.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Rise of the Eldrazi
- Price
- $0.51
- EDHREC rank
- #13470
Gravity Well shuts down every flying attacker on the board the moment it resolves — no activation, no setup, just a blanket ground-floor rule at three mana. In ground-focused strategies like Jasmine Boreal of the Seven, that effect is a one-card answer to the most common way token and go-wide decks get stonewalled in the air.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Jasmine Boreal of the Seven
Jasmine Boreal of the Seven builds a dense board of vanilla and french-vanilla creatures that have no natural way to punch through flyers, so Gravity Well converts that ground army from a defensive stall into an uncontested attack force.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Gravity Well is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but its real home is Commander — the format where a single three-mana enchantment affects every opponent's air force simultaneously and stays on the board indefinitely. In Legacy and Vintage, faster removal and narrower game plans make a static enchantment this slow a liability; dedicated hate cards exist that do the job more efficiently in those formats. In Commander, Gravity Well fills a niche that green doesn't always have clean access to: repeatable, permanent flying hate that doesn't require targeting or tapping out each combat.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.51 bulk tier
At $0.51, Gravity Well sits firmly in bulk territory — easy to pick up as a throw-in with any order. Bulk enchantments with narrow but real utility tend to stay in this range, so don't expect movement either direction.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.