Open the Omenpaths
Instant
Choose one —
• Add two mana of any one color and two mana of any other color. Spend this mana only to cast creature or enchantment spells.
• Creatures you control get +1/+0 until end of turn.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Kaldheim
- Price
- $0.11
- EDHREC rank
- #13827
Open the Omenpaths gives each player two red mana that only lasts the turn, which sounds like symmetry until you build around spending it faster than your opponents can. The cost is real — handing opponents ritual mana is a genuine risk — but in a deck that can immediately cash all of it in, it reads as a one-mana ritual that also ramps your table.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Open the Omenpaths is a niche piece rather than a staple — it earns a slot in storm, wheel, or mass-cast strategies where you can spend the full four floating mana before anyone else benefits meaningfully. In Pauper it sees occasional play in red ritual shells that want redundancy beyond Pyretic Ritual. Competitive formats like Modern, Legacy, and Vintage have faster and less symmetrical options, so Open the Omenpaths rarely makes the cut there. Oathbreaker can squeeze value from it in red storm-style builds, same logic as Commander.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.11 bulk tier
At $0.11, Open the Omenpaths is pure bulk — grab a copy without thinking about it. The price is stable because demand is narrow; this isn't a card that suddenly jumps on a reprint announcement or a new commander release.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.