Prismatic Lace
Instant
Target permanent becomes the color or colors of your choice. (This effect lasts indefinitely.)
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Mirage
- Price
- $1.48
- EDHREC rank
- #21766
Prismatic Lace changes a permanent's color to any single color of your choice for one blue mana — a surgical effect that enables color-matters synergies, dodges protection, or feeds something like Seedcradle Witch on command. It does exactly one thing, costs almost nothing to cast, and is the right call whenever your deck actually needs it.
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 |
Prismatic Lace is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker — the formats where niche, high-ceiling effects find the right home. In Commander it's a narrow include: the decks that want it really want it, and every other deck has no business running it. Legacy and Vintage have the raw card power to make color-reassignment relevant in fringe scenarios, but Prismatic Lace never appears in those formats because the effect doesn't generate tempo or card advantage on its own. Oathbreaker, like Commander, is where color-matters synergies concentrate enough to justify the slot.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Seedcradle WitchBloom TenderPrismatic Lace
Infinite black mana; Infinite blue mana; Infinitely large creature until end of turn; Infinite red mana; Infinite mana of colors among permanents you control
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Seedcradle WitchFaeburrow ElderPrismatic Lace
Infinite black mana; Infinite blue mana; Infinitely large creature until end of turn; Infinite red mana; Infinite mana of colors among permanents you control
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Current price
$1.48 cheap tier
At $1.48, Prismatic Lace sits in the cheap tier — low enough that acquisition is never the barrier to running it. The price is stable because demand is narrow and consistent: it's not a card that spikes, but it won't crater either, since the players who need Prismatic Lace genuinely need it.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.