Obelisk of Bant
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- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- GUW
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Shards of Alara
- Price
- $0.17
- EDHREC rank
- #18804
Obelisk of Bant is a three-mana rock that taps for one of three colors — functional but unexciting, since it enters tapped and produces no mana the turn you play it. Strictly worse options than two-mana ramp exist, but so do strictly better three-mana rocks that untap immediately.
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 |
Obelisk of Bant is a Commander card, full stop — the other legal formats have no interest in a three-mana, enters-tapped mana rock when faster alternatives exist at every price point. In Commander, it fills a color-fixing role in Bant (green/white/blue) decks that have exhausted better options or need redundancy deep into the 99. Pauper technically allows it, but that format's artifact ramp suite is thin enough that you'd still reach for Prismatic Lens or Wayfarer's Bauble first. Run Obelisk of Bant only when you genuinely need the ninth or tenth piece of ramp and your curve demands all three Bant colors.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.17 bulk tier
At $0.17, Obelisk of Bant is pure bulk — buy it without thinking if you need it, and don't expect the price to move in either direction. It's the kind of card you trade for in a bulk bin rather than order individually.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.