Pretender's Claim
Enchantment — Aura
Enchant creature
Whenever enchanted creature becomes blocked, tap all lands defending player controls.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Mercadian Masques
- Price
- $0.28
- EDHREC rank
- #27232
Pretender's Claim gives you a repeating mana engine stapled to a land — every time an opponent taps a nonbasic for mana, you get a colorless back, which snowballs fast in a four-player game full of fetch-heavy, dual-heavy mana bases. The cost is a single enchantment slot and the irrelevance it becomes the moment opponents go land-light, but in any table where nonbasics are the norm, this card pays for itself within two turns.
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 |
Commander is where Pretender's Claim lives — four players with greedy nonbasic mana bases means the triggers stack up quickly, and a one-mana enchantment that generates recurring colorless ramp is easy to slot into any deck that wants to go over the top. Legacy and Vintage legality is technically there, but neither format gives the card a meaningful role; the slower, multiplayer dynamic that makes Pretender's Claim tick simply doesn't exist in those 1v1 environments. Oathbreaker mirrors Commander's multiplayer context closely enough that the same logic applies — if nonbasics are everywhere at the table, Pretender's Claim is a quiet value piece that rewards you for doing nothing.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.28 bulk tier
At $0.28, Pretender's Claim is deep bulk — you're paying less than a pack of gum for a card with a unique, repeatable effect that has no direct analog at the same price point. Bulk rares with niche upside can spike if a deck archetype pushes them into demand, but at this price you're buying it for the effect, not for any speculative reason.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.