Island
Basic Land — Island
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- CMC
- 0
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Final Fantasy
- Price
- $0.30
- EDHREC rank
- —
Island enters untapped and produces blue mana — that's the entire job, and it does it without condition, cost, or downside. In any deck touching blue, including four-color builds like Breya, Etherium Shaper, it's the floor every other land is measured against.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Breya, Etherium Shaper
Breya, Etherium Shaper runs blue for countermagic, card draw, and artifact synergies, and Island is the cleanest source of that mana — no life payment, no bounce clause, no ETB tapped.
Atraxa, Praetors' Voice
Atraxa, Praetors' Voice sits in four colors and leans heavily on blue for proliferate payoffs and interaction, so Island fills out the basic-land slots that fetch targets like Farseek and Skyshroud Claim can't reach.
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 |
Island is legal in every sanctioned format and has been since the game began. In Commander it's the backbone of any blue mana base — fetchable by Polluted Delta, tutored by Cultivate effects in five-color decks, and immune to nonbasic hate like Blood Moon. In competitive formats like Legacy and Vintage, it underpins the blue permission suites that define those formats. Across the board, Island sets the baseline: free, reliable, unrestricted blue mana that every other land in the format is implicitly trying to approximate.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.30 bulk tier
At $0.30, Island sits firmly in bulk territory — you're paying for a specific printing or art, not scarcity. It will never spike; supply is effectively infinite, and any copy does the same work as any other.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Breya, Etherium Shaper
- Atraxa, Praetors' Voice
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.