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Oboro, Palace in the Clouds

Legendary Land

{T}: Add {U}.
{1}: Return Oboro to its owner's hand.

CMC
0
Mana cost
Color identity
U
Rarity
rare
Set
Saviors of Kamigawa
Price
$21.99
EDHREC rank
#5037
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Oboro, Palace in the Clouds card art
Oboro, Palace in the Clouds produces blue mana, enters untapped, and can bounce itself to hand for one blue — which means commanders like Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait and Kodama of the East Tree treat it as a repeatable land-drop trigger on demand. The cost is a real one: activating the bounce costs mana and a land drop, so it's an engine piece, not a free engine.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

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Tatyova, Benthic Druid

Tatyova, Benthic Druid

15.4% of decks · synergy 0.13

Tatyova, Benthic Druid gains life and draws a card on each land ETB, making Oboro, Palace in the Clouds a repeatable source of both — limited only by your mana and available land drops.

03
Chulane, Teller of Tales

Chulane, Teller of Tales

9.9% of decks · synergy 0.09

Chulane, Teller of Tales puts a land into play when a creature enters, and Oboro, Palace in the Clouds converts that extra land drop into a bounce target, sustaining the chain across multiple turns.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

In Commander, Oboro, Palace in the Clouds is a role-player in land-matters and landfall strategies — it does nothing on its own but becomes a mana sink with real upside the moment your commander rewards land ETBs. Legacy and Vintage lists have used it as a zero-downside blue source that incidentally supports Loam or Wasteland-resilient mana bases, though those applications are narrow. Modern can play it but rarely wants it outside niche landfall shells. Pioneer and Standard can't run it, and Pauper's rarity bar also excludes it.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Budget Alternatives

Cheaper options that do most of the same work

There is no true budget replacement for Oboro, Palace in the Clouds because the self-bounce on an untapped Island is structurally unique — you're paying for the ability to retrigger landfall at instant speed, and no sub-$5 land replicates that cleanly. The closest proxies are cards like Llanowar Scout or Sakura-Tribe Scout, which let you replay lands from hand on other players' turns, but they're creatures rather than lands and fold to removal in ways Oboro never does.

Price Context

Current price

$21.99 premium tier

At $21.99, Oboro, Palace in the Clouds sits in the premium tier — expensive for a land that taps for one color and does nothing without a specific commander. Price is driven almost entirely by demand from Aesi and Tatyova decks; if your commander doesn't care about land ETBs, this is a $22 Island and you should skip it.

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