Mistveil Plains
Land — Plains
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This land enters tapped., : Put target card from your graveyard on the bottom of your library. Activate only if you control two or more white permanents.
- CMC
- 0
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Secrets of Strixhaven Commander
- Price
- $0.36
- EDHREC rank
- #3021
Mistveil Plains lets you recycle instants and sorceries from your graveyard back into your library at instant speed — a repeatable effect that most dedicated Plains-count payoffs get for free. The cost is a land slot that enters tapped, which is a real price, but Sunforger decks and Quintorius, History Chaser builds recoup that tempo immediately by turning the activation into an engine.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Quintorius, History Chaser
Quintorius, History Chaser is the deck where Mistveil Plains does the most work — recycling spells back into the library means Quintorius can keep triggering off the same cards, generating a near-perpetual loop of tokens and damage without needing a full combo infrastructure.
Kellan, the Fae-Blooded
Kellan, the Fae-Blooded tutors Auras and Equipment repeatedly, and Mistveil Plains acts as a safety valve that puts key instants or sorceries back into the library so they can be found again rather than sitting stranded in the graveyard.
Karametra, God of Harvests
Karametra, God of Harvests triggers off creature casts to fetch Plains directly, which means Mistveil Plains reliably hits the battlefield without consuming a draw or tutor, making the recycling upside essentially free.
Queen Marchesa
Queen Marchesa runs a wide instant suite to defend the monarch and threaten at multiple points in the turn, and Mistveil Plains quietly prevents those instants from running out — keeping the threat of interaction live even in long games.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is the natural home for Mistveil Plains — the 100-card singleton format magnifies any effect that recycles specific cards, and the slower pace means entering tapped rarely costs you the game. In Legacy and Vintage it sees fringe play in Sunforger-adjacent white shells or Life from the Loam toolbox decks, but the competition for land slots is brutal and it rarely makes the cut outside of dedicated Plains-matter strategies. Modern white decks have enough Plains-counting payoffs that Mistveil Plains occasionally appears in Flagstones of Trokair builds, though again the metagame's speed limits its ceiling. Pioneer, Standard, and Pauper can't run it, so Commander remains the format where it's genuinely worth evaluating on every relevant build.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
SunforgerChance for GloryAngel's GraceMistveil PlainsSword of Feast and Famine
Infinite turns; Lock
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SunforgerFinal FortuneAngel's GraceMistveil PlainsSword of Feast and Famine
Infinite turns; Lock
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SunforgerChance for GloryAngel's GraceMistveil PlainsDeserted Temple
Infinite turns; Lock
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Captain SisayMindslaverMistveil Plains
You control one opponent on their turn each turn cycle; Lock
View on Commander Spellbook ↗SunforgerFinal FortuneAngel's GraceMistveil PlainsDeserted Temple
Infinite turns; Lock
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Current price
$0.36 bulk tier
At $0.36, Mistveil Plains is firmly bulk — you pick up a playset for the cost of a sleeve pack. That price has stayed low because it's a niche utility land rather than a staple, but in the decks that want it the effect is irreplaceable enough that the cost is never the reason to skip it.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.