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Primordial Mist

Enchantment

At the beginning of your end step, you may manifest the top card of your library. (Put it onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature. Turn it face up any time for its mana cost if it's a creature card.)
Exile a face-down permanent you control face up: You may play that card this turn. (You still pay its costs. Timing rules still apply.)

CMC
5
Mana cost
{4}{U}
Color identity
U
Rarity
rare
Set
Commander 2018
Price
$0.36
EDHREC rank
#6431
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Primordial Mist card art
Primordial Mist lets you manifest your hand face-down, then unmask each permanent for free at end of turn — effectively turning every card in hand into a surprise threat with built-in protection from discard. The cost is a five-mana enchantment that does nothing until your next end step, so it demands a deck built around the payoff; Zimone, Mystery Unraveler and Obscuring Aether are the clearest signs you're in the right archetype.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Zimone, Mystery Unraveler

Zimone, Mystery Unraveler

65.3% of decks · synergy 0.62

Zimone, Mystery Unraveler is the natural home — her ability to flip manifested cards and draw on unmorph directly rewards the repeated manifest triggers Primordial Mist generates every turn, turning each end step into card selection and pressure.

02
Kadena, Slinking Sorcerer

Kadena, Slinking Sorcerer

55.4% of decks · synergy 0.54

Kadena, Slinking Sorcerer draws a card the first time each turn you cast or manifest a face-down creature, so Primordial Mist's end-step manifest chains fuel free card draw on the next cycle and keep the hand full enough to manifest again.

03
Etrata, Deadly Fugitive

Etrata, Deadly Fugitive

37.5% of decks · synergy 0.37

Etrata, Deadly Fugitive rewards putting creatures into the manifest zone and flipping them, and Primordial Mist supplies a steady stream of face-down permanents for Etrata's triggers without spending additional mana each turn.

04
Y'shtola Rhul

Y'shtola Rhul

34.6% of decks · synergy 0.34

Y'shtola Rhul cares about face-down creatures and the moment they flip, making Primordial Mist a repeatable engine that advances her gameplan every single end step without requiring extra spell casts.

05
Vannifar, Evolved Enigma

Vannifar, Evolved Enigma

34.3% of decks · synergy 0.31

Vannifar, Evolved Enigma benefits from a wide board of face-down permanents, and Primordial Mist converts hand equity into that board state reliably, giving Vannifar more targets to work with each turn cycle.

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

Primordial Mist is a Commander card through and through — the manifest-your-hand loop is slow enough that it needs a 40-life multiplayer game and a commander who rewards the mechanic to justify five mana doing nothing on resolution. In Vintage and Legacy it's technically legal but practically irrelevant; no competitive shell wants a five-mana enchantment that waits until end of turn to generate value in a format where games end faster. Oathbreaker shares Commander's singleton, multiplayer structure, so the same manifest-value builds that run it in Commander can slot it in there too, though the lower starting life total compresses the window. Outside those formats, Primordial Mist is simply not legal.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.36 bulk tier

At $0.36, Primordial Mist sits firmly in bulk territory despite being a meaningful build-around in manifest strategies. It sees enough Commander play — especially in Zimone, Mystery Unraveler decks — that copies stay in circulation, so don't expect the price to spike unless a new manifest commander dramatically raises demand.

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