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Manascape Refractor

Artifact

This artifact enters tapped.
This artifact has all activated abilities of all lands on the battlefield.
You may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to pay the activation costs of this artifact's abilities.

CMC
3
Mana cost
{3}
Color identity
C
Rarity
rare
Set
Commander 2020
Price
$1.47
EDHREC rank
#10709
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Manascape Refractor card art
Manascape Refractor copies every activated mana ability from every land on the battlefield — including lands your opponents control — for three colorless mana, which means it turns a table full of Mutavault activations, fetch effects, and utility lands into your mana base. It's a slow setup piece, but in the right shell it generates absurd mana diversity on the cheap.

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

Commander is where Manascape Refractor actually does something, since multiplayer tables guarantee a wide variety of lands to copy — the more players, the more free mana abilities you're piggybacking on. Legacy and Vintage are technically legal homes, but a three-mana artifact that copies lands is far too slow for those formats and sees effectively zero competitive play there. Oathbreaker is the one other format worth mentioning: two-player tables shrink the pool, but powerful utility lands in either player's 60 still make it functional.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

29 decks
Toph, the First MetalbenderManascape RefractorLost Jitte

Toph, the First MetalbenderManascape RefractorLost Jitte

Infinite untap of lands you control; Infinite mana nontoken artifacts you control can produce; Infinite untap of nontoken artifacts you control; Infinite mana lands you control can produce; Infinite mana artifacts you control can produce; Infinite untap of artifacts you control; Infinite +1/+1 counters on creatures you control

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Price Context

Current price

$1.47 cheap tier

At $1.47, Manascape Refractor sits firmly in budget territory for what is a genuinely unique effect with no direct substitute. The price reflects low demand outside dedicated combo or lands builds rather than low power, so it's a cheap pickup if the angle fits your deck.

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