Naked Singularity
Artifact
Cumulative upkeep 
(At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this permanent, then sacrifice it unless you pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.)
If tapped for mana, Plains produce 
, Islands produce 
, Swamps produce 
, Mountains produce 
, and Forests produce 
instead of any other type.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BGRUW
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Ice Age
- Price
- $1.80
- EDHREC rank
- #23681
Naked Singularity warps every land on the battlefield, redirecting mana production so that Plains make red, Islands make green, Swamps make white, Mountains make blue, and Forests make black — a full table-wide color lock that punishes opponents for tapping basics. The upkeep cost is real: skip it twice and the card destroys itself, so you need either a way to protect it or a gameplan that ends things before you run out of upkeeps.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Naked Singularity is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker — and Commander is the only format where it sees meaningful play. In Legacy and Vintage, the cost structure is too slow and the effect too symmetrical to compete; stax pieces that warp mana exist on much cheaper curves in those formats. In Commander, it earns a slot in color-hate builds and chaos stax shells where opponents lean on basics and you've engineered a way to either float your own mana before activation or play lands that produce colorless. The upkeep maintenance clause caps how long Naked Singularity stays on board, which actually softens the political blowback — everyone at the table knows it won't last forever.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$1.80 cheap tier
At $1.80, Naked Singularity sits firmly in the budget tier for a card with a narrow but real use case. That price has been stable; it's a niche stax piece with a small audience, and nothing about its design suggests a reprint bump or a sudden spike.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.