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Pemmin's Aura

Enchantment — Aura

Enchant creature
{U}: Untap enchanted creature.
{U}: Enchanted creature gains flying until end of turn.
{U}: Enchanted creature gains shroud until end of turn. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.)
{1}: Enchanted creature gets +1/-1 or -1/+1 until end of turn.

CMC
3
Mana cost
{1}{U}{U}
Color identity
U
Rarity
uncommon
Set
The List
Price
$10.60
EDHREC rank
#2728
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Pemmin's Aura card art
Pemmin's Aura turns any creature that taps for two or more mana into an infinite-mana engine the moment it hits the board — untap, pay one, repeat. The cost is running a three-mana Aura that dies to any enchantment removal, but on Bloom Tender or Merieke Ri Berit, that risk is worth taking every time.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Merieke Ri Berit

Merieke Ri Berit

63.8% of decks · synergy 0.63

Merieke Ri Berit taps to steal creatures and must remain tapped or the stolen creature dies, so Pemmin's Aura solves both halves of that problem at once — it untaps her on demand and grants shroud to protect her from the removal that would otherwise break the lock.

02
Neerdiv, Devious Diver

Neerdiv, Devious Diver

50.9% of decks · synergy 0.48

Neerdiv, Devious Diver cares about tapping and untapping permanents, and Pemmin's Aura provides a repeatable, instant-speed untap trigger stapled to the commander itself, generating both value and mana without needing any external pieces.

03
Kilo, Apogee Mind

Kilo, Apogee Mind

33.0% of decks · synergy 0.31

Kilo, Apogee Mind rewards spell-slinging with proliferate effects, and Pemmin's Aura's one-mana untap doubles as a mana-positive loop on any sizable mana creature, letting Kilo storm through a hand without stalling on mana.

04
Yuna, Grand Summoner

Yuna, Grand Summoner

32.8% of decks · synergy 0.31

Yuna, Grand Summoner generates large creature tokens that can tap for effects, and Pemmin's Aura turns that tap trigger into an infinite loop engine while the shroud mode protects Yuna from targeted answers.

05
Alaundo the Seer

Alaundo the Seer

33.5% of decks · synergy 0.30

Alaundo the Seer untaps each turn based on the number of cards exiled, and Pemmin's Aura adds insurance — if Alaundo gets tapped down or targeted, the Aura provides an immediate untap and a protective shroud mode to keep the engine running.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern not legal
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Commander is where Pemmin's Aura lives — the format's singleton rule means you can't replicate the untap-for-one effect across four copies of anything else, and the prevalence of powerful tap-for-multiple-mana creatures makes the combo ceiling genuinely high. In Legacy and Vintage, Pemmin's Aura is technically legal but sees essentially no play; those formats move faster than a three-mana Aura with no immediate board impact can survive, and the combo lines it enables are slower than what those formats already tolerate. Oathbreaker gives it a small niche for the same reasons Commander does — a tapping signature spell or planeswalker with a mana creature creates the same engine in a smaller game. Modern, Pioneer, Standard, and Pauper are all off the table.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Budget Alternatives

Cheaper options that do most of the same work

Freed from the Real does nearly everything Pemmin's Aura does on the untap-for-one-blue-mana axis, costs a fraction of the price, and shows up in the same combo lines — the trade-off is that it offers none of the utility modes like shroud, flying, or the pump ability that give Pemmin's Aura flexibility outside the combo. Morphling's Influence, Unbender Tine, or even Vigean Graftmage fill adjacent roles in specific builds, but none of them replicate the full suite of protection and evasion that makes Pemmin's Aura the preferred version when budget isn't the constraint.

Price Context

Current price

$10.60 mid tier

At $10.60, Pemmin's Aura sits in the mid tier — not a budget include, but not a format staple commanding a premium either. The price is stable because demand is narrow and consistent: it's a combo piece in specific commander archetypes rather than a card every blue deck wants, so it's unlikely to spike dramatically but also unlikely to fall below the $8–10 floor its combo utility sustains.

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