Mana Breach
Enchantment
Whenever a player casts a spell, that player returns a land they control to its owner's hand.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Seventh Edition
- Price
- $0.86
- EDHREC rank
- #10215
Mana Breach taxes every spell on the table by forcing each player to return a land to hand whenever they cast anything — at four mana, that's a steep price for the caster but a grinding punishment for everyone else across a long game. Chulane, Teller of Tales shrugs off the downside entirely, since bouncing lands back to hand just fuels another round of creature-into-draw-into-replay.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Chulane, Teller of Tales
Chulane, Teller of Tales turns Mana Breach's supposed drawback into an engine — every creature you play bounces a land back to hand, which Chulane's draw trigger immediately replaces, letting you replay cheap creatures while opponents are bleeding tempo.
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 |
Mana Breach is a Commander card through and through — the enchantment's cumulative tax is most punishing in a four-player game where opponents can't focus it down without spending the very spells the tax penalizes. In Legacy and Vintage it's legal but effectively unplayed; faster formats find a symmetrical four-mana enchantment far too slow when opponents can simply win before it matters. Oathbreaker offers a smaller-pod context where the tax still bites, though the faster clock dilutes its staying power.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Chulane, Teller of TalesMana BreachShrieking Drake
Infinite card draw; Infinite draw triggers; Near-infinite ETB; Near-infinite landfall triggers; Near-infinite LTB; Near-infinite storm count
View on Commander Spellbook ↗Price Context
Current price
$0.86 bulk tier
At $0.86, Mana Breach sits firmly in bulk territory — the kind of card you pick out of a dollar box rather than track down a vendor for. That price is unlikely to move dramatically given its narrow Commander niche, but the low buy-in makes it a zero-regret inclusion for any deck that wants the effect.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.