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Khalni Gem

Artifact

When this artifact enters, return two lands you control to their owner's hand.
{T}: Add two mana of any one color.

CMC
4
Mana cost
{4}
Color identity
C
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Zendikar
Price
$0.35
EDHREC rank
#15639
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Khalni Gem card art
Khalni Gem enters the battlefield, you bounce two lands, and you immediately tap it for two mana of any color — net neutral on mana but loaded with replay potential whenever something like Ghostly Flicker resets it. The cost is real: bouncing two lands sets your board back a step, so it earns its slot only in decks that treat that bounce as a feature, not a bug. Yedora, Grave Gardener is the canonical example, turning every bounced Forest into a free creature trigger on the way back in.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

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Yedora, Grave Gardener

Yedora, Grave Gardener

12.6% of decks · synergy 0.12

Yedora, Grave Gardener runs Khalni Gem because bouncing two Forests to the hand isn't a cost — it's the engine, since each one replays as a creature off Yedora's ability and can be bounced again for another loop.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Khalni Gem is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but it sees essentially zero play outside Commander. In Legacy and Vintage the three-mana entry cost and the land bounce are too slow and painful to compete with the format's existing mana infrastructure. Modern has enough efficient ramp that a come-into-play-tapped artifact producing only two mana doesn't make the cut. Commander is where Khalni Gem lives, specifically in decks that loop permanents or care about lands entering the battlefield repeatedly — outside that context, it's outclassed by simpler rocks.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.35 bulk tier

At $0.35, Khalni Gem sits firmly in bulk territory and has stayed there for years — no scarcity, no spike risk. Pick it up without a second thought if the engine fits your deck.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.