Quest for Ula's Temple
Enchantment
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may look at the top card of your library. If it's a creature card, you may reveal it and put a quest counter on this enchantment.
At the beginning of each end step, if there are three or more quest counters on this enchantment, you may put a Kraken, Leviathan, Octopus, or Serpent creature card from your hand onto the battlefield.
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Worldwake
- Price
- $6.72
- EDHREC rank
- #8445
Quest for Ula's Temple cheats full-cost Krakens, Leviathans, Octopuses, and Serpents directly into play at the end of your turn — bypassing mana costs entirely once it accumulates three lore counters. In Runo Stromkirk and any sea-monster tribal shell, it's the single most efficient way to deploy creatures that otherwise cost eight to twelve mana, and it costs one blue mana to deploy.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Runo Stromkirk
Runo Stromkirk's flip condition requires showing a creature with mana value six or greater at your upkeep, and Quest for Ula's Temple fills the board with exactly those creatures for free — meaning Runo reliably flips while also generating a steady stream of free sea monsters each turn cycle.
Kenessos, Priest of Thassa
Kenessos, Priest of Thassa already puts sea monsters on top of the library through scrying, and Quest for Ula's Temple converts those stacked topdecks into free deployments without spending the mana Kenessos would otherwise demand.
Kiora, Sovereign of the Deep
Kiora, Sovereign of the Deep rewards you for casting sea creatures with cascading value triggers, and Quest for Ula's Temple provides a free creature deployment every turn that keeps those triggers firing without draining your mana resources.
Arixmethes, Slumbering Isle
Arixmethes, Slumbering Isle decks want to resolve enormous sea creatures as fast as possible to establish board dominance, and Quest for Ula's Temple accelerates that plan by putting the biggest threats into play without touching the mana base.
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 |
Quest for Ula's Temple is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but Commander is the only format where it consistently earns a slot. In Legacy and Vintage, the setup cost — casting it turn one and then revealing creatures for three consecutive upkeeps — is prohibitively slow against interactive, fast-paced fields where the game is often decided before the third counter lands. Modern has no competitive sea-monster shell that could support it. Commander is the natural home: the slower pace, the abundance of card selection to stack reveals, and the tribal payoffs from commanders like Runo Stromkirk make the three-upkeep investment genuinely reasonable rather than a liability.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Budget Alternatives
Cheaper options that do most of the same work
There is no true budget replacement for Quest for Ula's Temple's free-deployment effect, but Quicksilver Amulet ($3–5 range) does the closest job — it lets you put any creature into play at flash speed for four mana, which trades the free-cast upside for flexibility and instant-speed timing. If the goal is simply cheating expensive sea creatures into play rather than doing it for zero mana, Amulet is the next-best option, though the mana cost means it functions as acceleration rather than a genuine free-cast engine.
Price Context
Current price
$6.72 mid tier
At $6.72, Quest for Ula's Temple sits in the mid tier — notable spend for a single enchantment, but justified given its unique effect and the absence of a direct functional replacement. It holds that price because demand is real and concentrated in Runo Stromkirk and Kenessos builds; it is not likely to become cheaper as long as sea-monster tribal remains a popular Commander archetype.
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Sources
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.