Mistvein Borderpost
Artifact
You may pay 
and return a basic land you control to its owner's hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
This artifact enters tapped.
: Add 
or 
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- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BU
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Archenemy
- Price
- $0.30
- EDHREC rank
- #16252
Mistvein Borderpost taps for blue or black mana and enters untapped — but that zero-mana feel comes with a real cost: you're paying one mana and returning a basic to cast it, meaning it's actually a one-mana rock that eats a land drop. Run it when you need to hit your artifact count, not because it's free.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Mistvein Borderpost earns its slot almost exclusively in artifact-matters decks that need to pad their artifact count cheaply — think Breya, Etherium Shaper or Sydri, Galvanic Genius shells where every artifact on board translates to value. In Pauper it sees fringe play in Tortured Existence and durdly control shells that want cheap blue-black fixing at common rarity. Legacy and Vintage have no use for it — those formats demand actual mana acceleration, not a land-with-extra-steps that trades tempo for artifact type.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.30 bulk tier
At $0.30, Mistvein Borderpost is bulk — you're not buying it for financial upside, you're buying it because it's the cheapest way to hit a blue-black artifact on turn one in a deck that cares. Price is stable and will stay there; it's a common with a narrow home.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.