Phantasmal Terrain
Enchantment — Aura
Enchant land
As this Aura enters, choose a basic land type.
Enchanted land is the chosen type.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Unlimited Edition
- Price
- $0.67
- EDHREC rank
- #24107
Phantasmal Terrain changes a land's type until end of turn — which means the effect vanishes at cleanup, leaving you with a one-shot tempo trick for two mana that rarely changes the game's outcome. It sees play in extremely narrow land-type-matters strategies and almost nowhere else.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Phantasmal Terrain is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but seeing meaningful play in virtually none of them. In Commander, the transient nature of the effect means you can't reliably set up land-type synergies across a full table, and better permanent options exist for any deck that cares about land types. In Legacy and Vintage, the card simply doesn't clear the power bar — the formats move too fast for a two-mana sorcery with no lasting board impact. Pauper is the one context where fringe use is conceivable, specifically in strategies that need a land to briefly count as a particular basic type to trigger a specific effect, but even there Phantasmal Terrain struggles to earn a slot.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.67 bulk tier
At $0.67, Phantasmal Terrain sits at the high end of bulk pricing for a card with almost no competitive application — demand is negligible, and supply from older printings keeps it available without effort. There's no pressure to acquire it urgently; copies will remain accessible at this price or lower.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.