Raka Sanctuary
Enchantment
At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control a white or blue permanent, this enchantment deals 1 damage to target creature. If you control a white permanent and a blue permanent, this enchantment deals 3 damage instead.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Apocalypse
- Price
- $0.17
- EDHREC rank
- #29391
Raka Sanctuary turns every Plains, Island, and Mountain you control into a triggered damage prevention or bounce effect, but its power scales entirely on how many basic land types you're running in a tricolor shell — and in a format full of nonbasics, that ceiling is low. It's a niche enchantment for dedicated Jeskai or Domain-adjacent builds, not a general inclusion.
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 |
Raka Sanctuary is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but Legacy and Vintage won't touch it — those formats demand immediate, deterministic impact, and a three-mana enchantment that triggers off basic land types offers neither. In Commander, it occupies a narrow lane: Jeskai decks that lean on basics rather than a full fetchland-shockland manabase can trigger all three effects, but most tuned builds run too few Plains, Islands, and Mountains to make Raka Sanctuary reliable. Oathbreaker is its best realistic home if a Jeskai signature spell deck wants cheap, cumulative defense, though even there it's a fringe choice. The card simply asks too much of your mana base for the payoff it delivers.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.17 bulk tier
At $0.17, Raka Sanctuary is deep bulk — the price reflects its narrow playability rather than any undervaluation. There's no price pressure pushing it upward, so it holds its penny-bin status indefinitely.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.