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Patron of the Moon

Legendary Creature — Spirit

Moonfolk offering (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant by sacrificing a Moonfolk and paying the difference in mana costs between this and the sacrificed Moonfolk. Mana cost includes color.)
Flying
{1}: Put up to two land cards from your hand onto the battlefield tapped.

CMC
7
Mana cost
{5}{U}{U}
Color identity
U
Rarity
rare
Set
The List
Price
$4.67
EDHREC rank
#10929
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Patron of the Moon card art
Patron of the Moon lets you drop two lands per turn instead of one — pair it with Lotus Cobra and every land hit becomes two mana, or with Tameshi, Reality Architect and you're bouncing and replaying permanents every turn cycle. The seven-mana cost is real, but in any deck built around land drops, it earns that slot immediately.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Tameshi, Reality Architect

Tameshi, Reality Architect

49.8% of decks · synergy 0.49

Tameshi, Reality Architect turns every land drop into a recursion trigger, and Patron of the Moon doubles those triggers — you're bouncing and replaying artifacts or enchantments twice a turn for effectively zero extra investment. That 49% inclusion rate reflects a genuine engine piece, not a filler slot.

02
Mairsil, the Pretender

Mairsil, the Pretender

17.1% of decks · synergy 0.17

Mairsil, the Pretender cages Patron of the Moon to steal the activated ability, then uses it to dump lands from hand at instant speed — a clean way to accelerate mana development without needing the body on board. It's a niche application, but in Mairsil it's one of the better caged abilities available.

03
Archelos, Lagoon Mystic

Archelos, Lagoon Mystic

12.5% of decks · synergy 0.12

Archelos, Lagoon Mystic slows opponents' lands to entering tapped while your own engine runs hot, and Patron of the Moon feeds that asymmetry by ensuring you're always ahead on land drops. The combination snowballs quickly when Archelos is on board and your hand is stocked.

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 Patron of the Moon actually lives — long games, hand-refill engines, and landfall payoffs all give it room to justify seven mana. In Legacy and Vintage it's technically legal but too slow to see competitive play; those formats don't care about doubling land drops at sorcery speed on turn five or later. Modern is similarly unkind, though casual Modern tables could make it work in a dedicated lands shell. Oathbreaker is the one non-Commander 60-card variant where Patron of the Moon could plausibly matter, specifically in a landfall-heavy build with the right signature spell.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$4.67 cheap tier

At $4.67, Patron of the Moon sits at the high end of the "cheap" tier — affordable enough to include without budget anxiety, but just expensive enough that you want a real plan for it rather than a speculative slot. It's a niche card with a stable, narrow demand base, so the price reflects its Commander utility ceiling rather than any broader appeal.

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