Reflecting Pool
Land
: Add one mana of any type that a land you control could produce.
- CMC
- 0
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Magic Online Promos
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #176
Reflecting Pool taps for any color your other lands already produce, making it the most flexible land in a multicolor deck — the only real cost is that it contributes nothing if it's your first land down. In decks with three or more colors, including edge cases like Sen Triplets where you may need to cast spells from opponents' hands on any given turn, it's an auto-include.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Sen Triplets
Sen Triplets demands every color of mana on any given turn — you're casting opponents' spells, which means your mana base has to answer for white, blue, and black simultaneously plus whatever your opponents are running. Reflecting Pool reads whatever your other lands already say and mirrors it back, making it one of the cleanest fixes in the 99.
The Ur-Dragon
Five-color Dragon tribal puts more strain on a mana base than almost any archetype, and Reflecting Pool earns its slot by echoing whatever your fetches, duals, and shocks have already set up. The Ur-Dragon's eminence discount means you're casting spells on curve — Reflecting Pool makes sure you have the right pips when it matters.
Animar, Soul of Elements
Animar, Soul of Elements runs Temur colors and wants to dump creatures onto the board as fast as possible, so a land that flexibly covers red, green, or blue without entering tapped is genuine tempo. Reflecting Pool handles the off-color pip on a curve play without slowing you down.
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 Reflecting Pool does its best work — three-plus color decks are the norm, singleton construction means you can't lean on redundant basics, and the politics of a 40-life game give you time to build a mana base that rewards careful construction. In Legacy and Vintage, Reflecting Pool sees play in greedy multicolor control shells where the land suite already includes enough dual lands to make it consistently useful, though the competition from Mox effects and fetch-dual combinations limits how many decks actually want it. Modern has access to it but fetchable shocklands cover most mana-fixing needs more efficiently, so it's a fringe inclusion at best there. Oathbreaker mirrors Commander's logic closely — multicolor signatures push toward it for the same reasons. Pioneer, Standard, and Pauper aren't options.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
unknown tier
Reflecting Pool has been reprinted several times, which keeps the price accessible relative to its power level — check current listings on Scryfall or TCGPlayer for the cheapest printing, since art and set don't affect function. It's a long-term staple in any multicolor Commander collection, so picking up a copy at its current price is straightforward value for the shelf.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.