Multiversal Passage
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- CMC
- 0
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Marvel's Spider-Man
- Price
- $8.42
- EDHREC rank
- #2859
Multiversal Passage tutors a Spider-Man character card directly onto the battlefield — that's a free creature at instant speed for two mana, conditional on your commander being Miles Morales or another Spider-verse legend. The rate is absurd for what you get, and in any deck built around it, this is a staple, not a consideration.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Miles Morales
Miles Morales decks run Multiversal Passage as a core tutor — it fetches any Spider-Man character into play at instant speed, which directly feeds Miles's triggered abilities and keeps the engine turning every turn cycle.
Peter Parker
Peter Parker wants bodies on the battlefield consistently, and Multiversal Passage delivers one for two mana without touching your hand — that efficiency slots cleanly into the tempo game Peter Parker decks are built around.
Gwen Stacy
Gwen Stacy decks lean on specific Spider-verse characters to trigger her abilities, and Multiversal Passage acts as redundant access to whichever piece is missing from the board at any given moment.
Eddie Brock
Eddie Brock's symbiote-focused strategies still benefit from Multiversal Passage as a cheap way to drop a Spider-Man character and trigger any enter-the-battlefield payoffs the deck is running.
Norman Osborn
Norman Osborn lists include Multiversal Passage at a lower rate, but the card still pulls its weight as cheap creature deployment in a set where battlefield presence translates directly to resource advantage.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Multiversal Passage is legal in every major constructed format but is functionally a Commander card — its tribal tutoring only fires in decks built around Spider-Man characters, which means zero competitive relevance in Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, or Standard. In Commander it's a role-player with a narrow but very high ceiling: inside the right deck it's a two-mana creature tutor at instant speed, which is a rate the format almost never sees without significant restrictions. Outside of Spider-verse commanders, it's a blank, so don't let the broad legality footprint mislead you about where it actually belongs.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Budget Alternatives
Cheaper options that do most of the same work
If Multiversal Passage is out of reach, Fauna Shaman and Eldritch Evolution both find creatures and see wide Commander play, though neither puts the card directly into play for free the way Multiversal Passage does. The on-battlefield deployment is the hard part to replicate cheaply — you're trading that premium for a lower price tag and accepting a meaningful downgrade in the Spider-verse shell specifically.
Price Context
Current price
$8.42 mid tier
At $8.42, Multiversal Passage sits in the mid tier — expensive enough to feel like a deliberate purchase, cheap enough that it's not a barrier in a focused Spider-Man deck where it's essentially mandatory. It's a narrow card tied to a single theme, so demand outside that Commander niche is limited; the price reflects its best-in-slot status within those decks rather than broad format appeal.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Miles Morales
- Peter Parker
- Gwen Stacy
- Eddie Brock
- Norman Osborn
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.