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Noyan Dar, Roil Shaper

Legendary Creature — Merfolk Ally

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, you may put three +1/+1 counters on target land you control. If you do, that land becomes a 0/0 Elemental creature with haste that's still a land.

CMC
5
Mana cost
{3}{W}{U}
Color identity
UW
Rarity
rare
Set
Battle for Zendikar
Price
$0.13
EDHREC rank
#18713
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Noyan Dar, Roil Shaper card art
Noyan Dar, Roil Shaper turns every instant and sorcery into a land-creature with a growing power base — cast enough spells and you're swinging with a 10/10 Island before opponents can answer it. The cost is real: five mana for a 4/4 with no immediate board impact means you're dead in the water if it eats a removal spell before your next turn, and unlike Squirrel Nest it generates no value on the turn it enters.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Noyan Dar, Roil Shaper is a Commander card through and through — the long game and spell-heavy strategies that make it work only exist in a 40-life, 100-card environment. In Legacy, Modern, and Pioneer it's legal but functionally irrelevant: five mana for a do-nothing-on-entry creature is unplayable in formats where the game is often decided by turn four. Vintage has the raw power to cast it early, but no reason to — better threats exist at every point on the curve. Commander is the one format where a slow, snowballing land-animator can find the time and the support to become genuinely threatening.

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Price Context

Current price

$0.13 bulk tier

At $0.13, Noyan Dar, Roil Shaper is deep bulk — the kind of card you pull from a common box rather than buy. Demand is narrow enough that there's no reason to expect price movement in either direction, so pick it up for pocket change and don't think twice.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.