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Omnath, Locus of Creation

Legendary Creature — Elemental

When Omnath enters, draw a card.
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you gain 4 life if this is the first time this ability has resolved this turn. If it's the second time, add {R}{G}{W}{U}. If it's the third time, Omnath deals 4 damage to each opponent and each planeswalker you don't control.

CMC
4
Mana cost
{R}{G}{W}{U}
Color identity
GRUW
Rarity
mythic
Set
Store Championships
Price
—
EDHREC rank
#4015
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Omnath, Locus of Creation card art
Omnath, Locus of Creation generates card draw, life gain, and direct damage just for playing lands — four colors of value stapled to a four-mana body that takes over games the turn it resolves. Ancient Greenwarden doubling landfall triggers and The Wandering Minstrel tutoring it into play illustrate exactly why it ends up in so many 99s: the payoff is immediate and the synergy ceiling is enormous.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

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The Wandering Minstrel

The Wandering Minstrel

25.9% of decks · synergy 0.23

The Wandering Minstrel's cascade-on-landfall engine turns every land drop into a free spell, and Omnath, Locus of Creation stacks on top of that — drawing cards, gaining life, and pinging opponents off the same trigger chain that's already doing work.

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

In Commander, Omnath, Locus of Creation is a genuine build-around — the landfall triggers compound fast enough that opponents have to answer it immediately or fall behind on both life total and cards. Modern and Legacy give it a home in four-color midrange and control shells where a single land drop can swing tempo, though in those formats it competes for a slot with a lot of powerful four-drops and sees play primarily in specialized landfall strategies. Pioneer is a legal home but a narrower one — the support pieces are thinner and the format rewards faster, more linear approaches. Oathbreaker is another format where it functions well as a planeswalker-adjacent value engine.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

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Omnath, Locus of CreationDoppelgangMystic Sanctuary

Omnath, Locus of CreationDoppelgangMystic Sanctuary

Infinite card draw; Near-infinite ETB; Near-infinite LTB; Near-infinite blue mana; Near-infinite copies of all permanents; Near-infinite damage; Near-infinite death triggers; Near-infinite green mana; Near-infinite landfall triggers; Near-infinite lifegain; Near-infinite lifegain triggers; Near-infinite magecraft triggers; Near-infinite mana permanents you control can produce; Near-infinite red mana; Near-infinite white mana

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Price Context

Current price

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