Heap Gate
Land — Gate
: Add 
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, : Add one mana of any color., , Tap an untapped Gate you control: Create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with ", Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")
- CMC
- 0
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate
- Price
- $0.36
- EDHREC rank
- #2926
Heap Gate enters tapped and produces any one color of mana — a five-color fixer that costs nothing beyond a tempo hit on the turn it lands. Outside of Nine-Fingers Keene decks, where it's effectively mandatory, it's a budget patch for greedy mana bases that can't afford better.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Nine-Fingers Keene
Nine-Fingers Keene cares about Gates specifically, and Heap Gate is one of the few five-color Gates in existence — it counts toward Keene's triggered ability while fixing any pip in a notoriously demanding five-color mana base, making it a near-universal include at 98% of Keene lists.
Archelos, Lagoon Mystic
Archelos, Lagoon Mystic turns tapped permanents entering the battlefield into a resource, and Heap Gate's mandatory tap clause goes from a drawback to a mild upside when Archelos is face-down on the board.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Heap Gate's home is Commander, almost entirely in Five-Color Gates builds where Gate synergies demand running every Gate available regardless of efficiency. In Pauper, five-color fixing at common is genuinely scarce, so Heap Gate occasionally appears in greedy domain or five-color brews that can't lean on rarer dual lands. Legacy and Vintage are legal but irrelevant — no competitive deck there wants a tapped land that produces a single mana. Heap Gate is a role-player, not a format staple, and its value is almost entirely conditional on whether your commander cares about the Gate subtype.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.36 bulk tier
At $0.36, Heap Gate is bulk — a price that reflects its narrow utility outside Gate-tribal shells. It won't appreciate meaningfully, but for Nine-Fingers Keene players it's a mandatory pickup at essentially no cost.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.