Lingering Mirage
Enchantment — Aura
Enchant land
Enchanted land is an Island.
Cycling 
(, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Urza's Saga
- Price
- $0.36
- EDHREC rank
- #22994
Lingering Mirage turns any land into an Island for one mana — and the enchanted land's controller can pay one blue to bounce it back, resetting the effect at will. It's a niche fixer and islandwalk enabler, not a staple, but in the decks that want it, it costs almost nothing to include.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Lingering Mirage fills two narrow roles: color-fixing a nonbasic into an Island for blue-pip-heavy decks, and setting up islandwalk as a repeatable combat angle. Legacy and Vintage see no competitive play — there are simply better options for land manipulation at this cost. Oathbreaker is the one fringe format where an islandwalk-focused blue planeswalker deck might actually slot Lingering Mirage in, since the smaller game size makes one-mana enablers relatively more impactful.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.36 bulk tier
At $0.36, Lingering Mirage is firmly bulk — the kind of card you pull from a box rather than buy. It holds that floor price because demand is narrow, and nothing about its effects suggests that changes.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.