Oracle of Mul Daya

Creature — Elf Shaman

You may play an additional land on each of your turns.
Play with the top card of your library revealed.
You may play lands from the top of your library.

CMC
4
Mana cost
{3}{G}
Color identity
G
Rarity
rare
Set
Double Masters 2022
Price
EDHREC rank
#487
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Oracle of Mul Daya card art
Oracle of Mul Daya puts lands from the top of your library directly onto the battlefield and lets you see two cards deep every draw step — that's ramp and card advantage stapled to a single four-mana body. The cost is real: it's a fragile 2/3 that dies to every stiff breeze, and its value evaporates the moment it leaves play, but in green decks that want land density it earns its slot almost unconditionally, including niche cases like Glacial Chasm recursion in Yuma, Proud Protector where putting extra lands into play is never wasted.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Yuma, Proud Protector

Yuma, Proud Protector

79.6% of decks · synergy 0.74

Yuma, Proud Protector triggers off lands entering the battlefield, so every extra land Oracle of Mul Daya accelerates onto the table is another token or card advantage trigger — Oracle turns Yuma's gameplan up by a full gear.

02
Hearthhull, the Worldseed

Hearthhull, the Worldseed

83.2% of decks · synergy 0.70

Hearthhull, the Worldseed rewards you for playing as many lands as possible as fast as possible, and Oracle of Mul Daya's ability to convert top-of-library lands into immediate battlefield presence directly feeds that engine at an 83% inclusion rate.

03
Szarel, Genesis Shepherd

Szarel, Genesis Shepherd

72.1% of decks · synergy 0.58

Szarel, Genesis Shepherd wants to chain land drops to fuel graveyard and creature synergies, and Oracle of Mul Daya's continuous top-of-deck land reveals keep those chains alive longer than almost any other four-mana play.

04
Hazezon, Shaper of Sand

Hazezon, Shaper of Sand

58.5% of decks · synergy 0.53

Hazezon, Shaper of Sand cares about Desert lands entering the battlefield to produce tokens, and Oracle of Mul Daya's ability to play those Deserts off the top of the library means more triggers per turn cycle without spending additional cards from hand.

05
Tannuk, Memorial Ensign

Tannuk, Memorial Ensign

54.5% of decks · synergy 0.48

Tannuk, Memorial Ensign builds around land drops and battlefield presence, and Oracle of Mul Daya slots in as a reliable engine piece that converts library density into tempo at a 54% clip across Tannuk builds.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander
legacy
modern
pioneer
standard
vintage
pauper
oathbreaker

Commander is where Oracle of Mul Daya lives — the 100-card singleton format rewards the steady land-advantage engine it provides, and green decks across virtually every archetype from landfall to big-mana ramp to combo want it. In Legacy and Vintage it's legal but largely invisible; four mana is too slow for formats where the game is often decided by turn two, and the effect, while powerful, doesn't interact with the cards those formats care about. Oathbreaker is a reasonable home for the same reason Commander is — longer games, higher land counts, and commanders that reward the extra drops.

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