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Paradise Plume

Artifact

As this artifact enters, choose a color.
Whenever a player casts a spell of the chosen color, you may gain 1 life.
{T}: Add one mana of the chosen color.

CMC
4
Mana cost
{4}
Color identity
C
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Time Spiral
Price
$0.20
EDHREC rank
#10582
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Paradise Plume card art
Paradise Plume enters, you name a color, and from that point forward every spell of that color your opponents cast drains them for one life and pads your total — while also tapping for mana in that color. The cost is real: four mana for a triggered life-swing is slow, and in pods without a Ghostly Flicker loop the card is just a mediocre rock. Pair it with Dina, Soul Steeper and every opponent's draw step becomes a damage tick; cut it from decks that don't gain life or need the combo enabled.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

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Dina, Soul Steeper

Dina, Soul Steeper

15.4% of decks · synergy 0.15

Dina, Soul Steeper turns every life-gain trigger into a drain, and Paradise Plume feeds that engine every time an opponent casts a spell of the named color — in a four-player game that's constant chip damage that scales with table activity. The Ghostly Flicker loop that resets Paradise Plume lets Dina close games without ever swinging a creature.

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

Commander is where Paradise Plume actually earns its slot: four opponents means the color-triggered drain fires far more often, and dedicated life-gain commanders like Dina, Soul Steeper can weaponize every trigger into a win condition. In Legacy and Vintage the card is legal but irrelevant — four mana for a conditional life-gain trigger doesn't come close to clearing the power bar in those formats, and no competitive shell wants it. Modern is the same story: legal on paper, unplayed in practice, since four mana artifacts with slow triggers are nowhere near the format's threat threshold. Paradise Plume is a Commander card through and through.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.20 bulk tier

At $0.20, Paradise Plume sits firmly in bulk territory — easy to acquire as a throw-in or cheap singles order. Bulk artifacts with narrow combo applications tend to stay at this price floor unless a new high-profile commander makes the interaction spike, so expect it to remain a low-risk, low-cost pickup.

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