Paliano, the High City
Legendary Land
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- CMC
- 0
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Conspiracy
- Price
- $0.35
- EDHREC rank
- #24235
Paliano, the High City enters untapped and taps for any color — but only when you control your commander, making it dead mana in every hand where your commander is answered or hasn't landed yet. The upside is real; the condition is punishing enough that it belongs in a narrow band of decks, not as a generic dual.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Paliano, the High City is a conditional five-color fixer — it covers any pip in your identity, but the moment your commander eats a removal spell or gets tucked, it reverts to a colorless land that only taps for nothing useful. Legacy and Vintage have access to it on paper, but the commander-reliant clause has no meaningful application in those formats and it sees zero play there. Oathbreaker is the format where the condition is least punishing, since your oathbreaker is relatively cheap to recast; even so, better fixers exist at the same price point.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.35 bulk tier
At $0.35, Paliano, the High City sits firmly in bulk territory — it costs less than a sleeve. Bulk conditional lands rarely climb in price, and with no cross-format demand and no competitive pedigree, there's nothing pushing it upward.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.