Prismatic Omen
Enchantment
Lands you control are every basic land type in addition to their other types.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Shadowmoor
- Price
- $6.09
- EDHREC rank
- #3488
Prismatic Omen turns every land you control into a five-color land for two mana — no tapping, no conditions, just an enchantment that rewires your mana base on the spot. Toph, the First Metalbender decks and five-color goodstuff shells run it because the effect is immediate and hard to interact with at instant speed; Abduction can steal your commander, but nothing steals your land types.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Toph, the First Metalbender
Toph, the First Metalbender cares about land types entering play, and Prismatic Omen retroactively makes every land already on the battlefield tick all five boxes — triggering her ability off lands that would otherwise do nothing.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Prismatic Omen earns its keep: domain payoffs, landfall triggers that care about basic land types, and five-color fixing all collapse into a single two-mana enchantment. In Legacy and Vintage, the card is legal but largely irrelevant — those formats have better fixing and don't run domain strategies at any real scale. Modern sees fringe play in domain-ramp shells alongside Amulet of Vigor and Dryad of the Ilysian Grove, but it's a niche role. Pioneer, Standard, and Pauper can't run it. Oathbreaker has the same appeal as Commander for any five-color or domain list, just in a smaller pool.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
AbductionDryad ArborEmeria ShepherdPhyrexian AltarPrismatic Omen
Infinite colored mana; Infinite death triggers; Infinite ETB; Infinite landfall triggers; Infinite LTB; Infinite sacrifice triggers
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Cheaper options that do most of the same work
Dryad of the Ilysian Grove does the same job on a 2/4 body for three mana, and it's legal in Modern if you need the overlap — the trade-off is that a creature dies to every removal spell where Prismatic Omen survives most of them. Chromatic Lantern is the other common swap: it fixes colors but doesn't grant basic land types, so domain counts and landfall triggers that care about Forest or Plains don't fire.
Price Context
Current price
$6.09 mid tier
At $6.09, Prismatic Omen sits in mid-tier pricing — not a budget pickup, but not a painful single-card purchase either. It's a casual-Commander staple with a narrow competitive footprint, so the price is stable rather than driven by tournament demand.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.