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Pinnacle Monk // Mystic Peak

Creature — Djinn Monk // Land

Prowess (Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)
When this creature enters, return target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand.

CMC
5
Mana cost
{3}{R}{R}
Color identity
R
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Modern Horizons 3
Price
$1.22
EDHREC rank
#554
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Pinnacle Monk // Mystic Peak card art
Pinnacle Monk // Mystic Peak enters as a 2/4 that copies instants and sorceries when it attacks, then flips into a land that taps for two mana of any color — substantial board presence and mana fixing stapled to the same card. The synergy with copy-payoff commanders is real, and Muddle, the Ever-Changing lists run it at over 50% inclusion for good reason. Effects like Saw in Half that exploit the double-faced structure push it even further, making this one of the more flexible additions in its price range.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Muddle, the Ever-Changing

Muddle, the Ever-Changing

51.3% of decks · synergy 0.38

Muddle, the Ever-Changing is a copy-everything commander, and Pinnacle Monk // Mystic Peak's attack trigger feeds that engine directly — over half of Muddle lists include it, the highest rate of any commander here.

02
Lorehold, the Historian

Lorehold, the Historian

41.7% of decks · synergy 0.36

Lorehold, the Historian cares about double-faced cards and spell recursion, making Pinnacle Monk // Mystic Peak a natural fit that simultaneously advances the land count and triggers copy effects.

03
Rionya, Fire Dancer

Rionya, Fire Dancer

45.7% of decks · synergy 0.34

Rionya, Fire Dancer creates token copies of creatures at the end of combat, and stacking multiple Pinnacle Monk // Mystic Peak triggers from those tokens compounds spell copying fast.

04
Ashling, Flame Dancer

Ashling, Flame Dancer

43.4% of decks · synergy 0.31

Ashling, Flame Dancer rewards stacking instants and sorceries, and Pinnacle Monk // Mystic Peak's copy trigger on attack lines up cleanly with the spellslinger gameplan Ashling runs.

05
The Archimandrite

The Archimandrite

37.3% of decks · synergy 0.31

The Archimandrite values monks specifically, and Pinnacle Monk // Mystic Peak contributes both the creature type and a relevant combat trigger that synergizes with the go-wide, tribe-matters strategy.

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 the natural home for Pinnacle Monk // Mystic Peak — the format's slower clock gives you time to flip it into Mystic Peak when mana fixing matters, and copy-payoff commanders turn the attack trigger into a win condition rather than a nice bonus. In Legacy and Vintage, a 2/4 for four mana that copies spells only on attack doesn't clear the bar; those formats want faster, more unconditional copy effects. Modern is legal but similarly unkind — the mana investment for a conditional trigger competes poorly against the format's efficiency ceiling. Pinnacle Monk // Mystic Peak is a Commander card through and through, and that's exactly where it earns its keep.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

1,265 decks
Ghostly FlickerPeregrine DrakePinnacle Monk // Mystic Peak

Ghostly FlickerPeregrine DrakePinnacle Monk // Mystic Peak

Infinite LTB; Infinite ETB; Infinite storm count; Infinite mana lands you control can produce; Infinite magecraft triggers; Infinite blinking; Infinite landfall triggers; Infinite untap of lands you control

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Price Context

Current price

$1.22 cheap tier

At $1.22, Pinnacle Monk // Mystic Peak sits comfortably in the cheap tier — low enough to include without budget stress, high enough that demand from Commander copy-payoff decks is clearly real. Given the card's niche but dedicated audience, that price is likely to hold.

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