Moonring Island
Land — Island
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This land enters tapped., : Look at the top card of target player's library. Activate only if you control two or more blue permanents.
- CMC
- 0
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Shadowmoor
- Price
- $0.48
- EDHREC rank
- #11529
Moonring Island lets you look at the top card of any opponent's library at any time — a permanent, free information advantage that costs you nothing beyond running an Island. The catch is a single blue pip, which is irrelevant in mono-blue and a minor consideration in two-color builds; Marvo, Deep Operative decks treat it as a near-mandatory inclusion because knowing the top card makes every connive trigger a real decision.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Marvo, Deep Operative
Marvo, Deep Operative connives by surveilling, and knowing an opponent's top card through Moonring Island tells you exactly when to let a card through versus when to push it to the graveyard — that permanent information layer turns Marvo from reactive to proactive.
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 |
In Commander, Moonring Island is a free-roll: it replaces a basic Island while giving you persistent, table-wide information that compounds over a long game. Legacy and Vintage both permit it, but those formats move too fast for a land that does nothing the turn it enters and generates no mana advantage — it sees essentially zero play there. Modern is legal but similarly uninterested; tempo formats punish lands that don't accelerate. Moonring Island's ceiling is squarely in Commander, where games go long, top-of-library manipulation is everywhere, and knowing what an opponent is about to draw is worth a card slot.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.48 bulk tier
At $0.48, Moonring Island sits firmly in bulk territory — you're paying for a functional upgrade over a basic Island with no real monetary barrier. Bulk lands rarely spike, so don't expect this to move unless a dominant Marvo, Deep Operative archetype pulls it into wider demand.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.