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Mana Echoes

Enchantment

Whenever a creature enters, you may add an amount of {C} equal to the number of creatures you control that share a creature type with it.

CMC
4
Mana cost
{2}{R}{R}
Color identity
R
Rarity
mythic
Set
Double Masters
Price
$56.50
EDHREC rank
#3897
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Mana Echoes card art
Mana Echoes turns every creature ETB into a mana surge — in a tribal deck, a single token wave can generate enough colorless mana to recast your hand or go infinite on the spot. Skirk Prospector, Marath, Will of the Wild, and any token doubler all become dramatically more dangerous the moment this enchantment hits the table.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Marath, Will of the Wild

Marath, Will of the Wild

25.4% of decks · synergy 0.25

Marath, Will of the Wild generates its own tokens and scales on the mana fed back into it, so Mana Echoes creates a self-reinforcing loop — each Beast or Elemental token makes the next activation cheaper, and with enough creatures in play the engine becomes infinite without any additional pieces.

02
Krenko, Mob Boss

Krenko, Mob Boss

17.0% of decks · synergy 0.14

Krenko, Mob Boss doubles the Goblin count every activation, and Mana Echoes converts that exponential creature growth directly into colorless mana — by the second or third Krenko trigger, the deck is functionally floating unlimited resources.

03
Grenzo, Dungeon Warden

Grenzo, Dungeon Warden

12.4% of decks · synergy 0.12

Grenzo, Dungeon Warden mills creatures onto the battlefield rather than the hand, and Mana Echoes rewards that continuous stream of ETBs by banking colorless mana that funds the next Grenzo activation — the loop is self-sustaining once the board has enough shared creature types.

04
Ovika, Enigma Goliath

Ovika, Enigma Goliath

10.6% of decks · synergy 0.10

Every noncreature spell Ovika, Enigma Goliath sees makes a Phyrexian Goblin token, and Mana Echoes charges for each one — casting spells into a large token board generates enough colorless mana to chain the next spell for free, turning Ovika's passive into an engine rather than a bonus.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Mana Echoes is a Commander card in every meaningful sense — the singleton format, long games, and tribal synergies are exactly the context where a four-mana enchantment that does nothing on its own gets time to dominate. In Legacy and Vintage it's technically legal but sees essentially no play; those formats move too fast for a do-nothing-until-next-turn enchantment to survive, and the colorless mana restriction limits payoffs compared to what those formats already have access to. Oathbreaker is the one other 60-card-adjacent format where Mana Echoes can occasionally appear in token-focused lists, but the real home is Commander, where tribal go-wide strategies are ubiquitous and the game state regularly reaches the density of creatures needed to make the mana generation absurd.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Budget Alternatives

Cheaper options that do most of the same work

Nothing fully replicates what Mana Echoes does — the combination of tribal scaling and colorless mana production is genuinely unique — but Cryptolith Rite and Earthcraft both convert creature boards into mana at a lower price point, with the trade-off that they tap individual creatures rather than triggering on ETBs and don't produce the same explosive surpluses in a single turn. If the goal is specifically fueling an infinite loop, Ashnod's Altar is the closest functional replacement at a fraction of the cost, sacrificing creatures for colorless mana instead of earning it passively, which is a different line but often leads to the same destination.

Price Context

Current price

$56.50 premium tier

At $56.50, Mana Echoes sits firmly in the premium tier — a price driven by genuine demand from tribal Commander players rather than casual scarcity. It has held value consistently because there is no functional reprint at a lower price point and no competitive-format pressure to spike or crash it.

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