Planar Nexus
Land
This land is every nonbasic land type. (Nonbasic land types include Cave, Desert, Gate, Lair, Locus, Mine, Power-Plant, Sphere, Tower, and Urza's.)
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- CMC
- 0
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Modern Horizons 3 Commander
- Price
- $10.90
- EDHREC rank
- #2596
Planar Nexus makes every land you control a land of every basic type simultaneously — not just a Forest or an Island, but all five at once — which unlocks fetch targets, dual-land payoffs, and type-synergy cards across the board. It's a four-mana do-nothing-on-entry enchantment, so it needs a deck that actively cashes in on basic land types; in Omo, Queen of Vesuva builds and similar landfall-type engines, it's an immediate engine piece rather than a curiosity.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Omo, Queen of Vesuva
Omo, Queen of Vesuva distributes +1/+1 counters by land type, and Planar Nexus turns every land into a five-type permanent, meaning every land drop triggers every applicable clause — the card doesn't slot into the deck, it completes the engine.
Nine-Fingers Keene
Nine-Fingers Keene cares about basic land types to fuel Simic land synergies, and Planar Nexus removes the constraint entirely — every land in play qualifies for every type-gated payoff without having to hunt down duals or fetches.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Planar Nexus is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but Commander is essentially its entire context. In Legacy and Vintage, modifying basic land types is irrelevant at a competitive level — those formats have access to the original dual lands and don't need a four-mana enchantment to paper over mana constraints. Oathbreaker is a real home if your planeswalker cares about land types, but the card sees almost no play there at scale. Commander is where the effect has room to breathe, specifically in decks built around land type synergies — fetchlands become universal, cards like Emeria, the Sky Ruin or Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle get much easier to activate, and any commander that rewards controlling lands of specific types immediately becomes more consistent.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Budget Alternatives
Cheaper options that do most of the same work
Prismatic Omen does nearly the same thing for two mana and has been widely available at a fraction of the cost — it's the closest functional replacement and the first card to consider if Planar Nexus is outside your budget. Joiner Adept converts creatures rather than lands and leaves your land base itself unchanged, so it's a weaker substitute, but in color-fixing-heavy builds it closes the gap enough to matter.
Price Context
Current price
$10.90 mid tier
At $10.90, Planar Nexus sits in mid-tier territory — expensive enough to be a deliberate include, cheap enough that it won't anchor a budget. The price reflects its narrow but deep demand from Omo, Queen of Vesuva decks specifically; if that commander's popularity fades, so does the floor.
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Sources
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.