Landscape Painter // Vibrant Idea
Creature — Merfolk Wizard // Sorcery
This creature enters prepared. (While it's prepared, you may cast a copy of its spell. Doing so unprepares it.)
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Secrets of Strixhaven
- Price
- $0.07
- EDHREC rank
- #23173
Landscape Painter // Vibrant Idea turns every permanent you control into a chosen color, which is the entire lock condition for Dovescape and similar color-gating effects — the on-board impact is immediately game-warping. The cost is that it does nothing alone, so it lives or dies by the lock pieces around it.
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 |
In Commander, Landscape Painter // Vibrant Idea is a fringe combo enabler — it slots into dedicated color-lock builds but rarely earns a slot outside them. In Legacy and Vintage, the card is legal but the color-changing effect is outclassed by Painter's Servant, which hits cards everywhere and fuels Grindstone; this version is a strict downgrade in those environments. Standard, Pioneer, and Modern offer the most accessible home for casual combo players who want the Dovescape interaction on a budget, though none of those formats have a competitive shell that wants it. Pauper is where Landscape Painter // Vibrant Idea is most interesting — the color-hosing effect is genuinely powerful in a format with narrow mana bases, and the Vibrant Idea back half provides actual card flow.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
DovescapeDisplacer KittenPhyrexian AltarLandscape Painter // Vibrant Idea
Infinite sacrifice triggers; Infinite storm count; Infinite ETB; Infinite LTB; Infinite colored mana; Infinite creature tokens; Infinite death triggers; Infinite magecraft triggers
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Current price
$0.07 bulk tier
At $0.07, Landscape Painter // Vibrant Idea is deep bulk — grab a playset for under a quarter and don't think twice. The price reflects its narrow application, and nothing about its role in any format suggests it moves off the bulk floor.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.