Insomnia, Crown City
Land — Town
This land enters tapped.
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- CMC
- 0
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BW
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Final Fantasy
- Price
- $0.15
- EDHREC rank
- #5710
Insomnia, Crown City enters tapped and produces colorless mana, which would be a liability on almost any other land — but it also lets you search your library for a basic whenever The Wandering Minstrel triggers, turning incidental land drops into real card selection. It's a role-player, not a powerhouse, and only earns a slot if your deck is built around the engine that justifies it.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
The Wandering Minstrel
The Wandering Minstrel's triggered ability is the entire reason Insomnia, Crown City exists in a deck — the land's search effect slots directly into that engine, letting you convert Minstrel triggers into land-based selection without spending a card from hand.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Insomnia, Crown City is legal everywhere but rarely relevant outside Commander, where singleton construction and 100-card variance make its tutoring effect meaningful. In 60-card formats — Modern, Pioneer, Standard — a tapped colorless land that only pays off with a specific legendary creature on the battlefield is too conditional to compete for a land slot. In Commander it earns consideration in one specific shell: The Wandering Minstrel decks that want to chain triggers and can absorb the tempo cost of a land entering tapped. Outside that archetype, skip it regardless of format.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.15 bulk tier
At $0.15, Insomnia, Crown City is deep bulk — the kind of card you pick out of a dollar box rather than purchase deliberately. Bulk lands with narrow synergies rarely climb in price unless the commander they're built around spikes, so don't expect this to move.
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Mentioned
- The Wandering Minstrel
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.