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Retreat to Coralhelm

Enchantment

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, choose one —
• You may tap or untap target creature.
• Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

CMC
3
Mana cost
{2}{U}
Color identity
U
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Duskmourn: House of Horror Commander
Price
$0.38
EDHREC rank
#1729
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Retreat to Coralhelm card art
Retreat to Coralhelm turns every land drop into a repeatable tap or untap effect, and with a bounce land like Simic Growth Chamber in play it becomes an infinite landfall trigger engine for a single three-mana enchantment. Commanders like Galadriel of Lothlórien that care about landfall or scrying make it a build-around; in anything else, it's a combo piece looking for the right partner.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Galadriel of Lothlórien

Galadriel of Lothlórien

80.4% of decks · synergy 0.72

Galadriel of Lothlórien triggers on scrying and landfall, and Retreat to Coralhelm provides both — the scry mode fires on each land drop, stacking card selection while Galadriel's counters and draw effects accumulate in the background.

02
Zimone and Dina

Zimone and Dina

71.3% of decks · synergy 0.67

Zimone and Dina wants to play multiple lands per turn and drain opponents in the process, and Retreat to Coralhelm's untap mode on a land-drop creature lets Zimone tap again immediately — turning each bounce land into a repeating loop that drains the table.

03
Archelos, Lagoon Mystic

Archelos, Lagoon Mystic

53.3% of decks · synergy 0.49

Archelos, Lagoon Mystic taps to slow everything down, and Retreat to Coralhelm provides free untap triggers off landfall to keep Archelos ready every turn without needing extra mana.

04
Hylda of the Icy Crown

Hylda of the Icy Crown

41.2% of decks · synergy 0.38

Hylda of the Icy Crown rewards tapping opponents' creatures, and Retreat to Coralhelm's tap-target-creature mode fires on every land drop — giving Hylda a steady stream of triggers to generate tokens or draw without spending cards.

05
Tatyova, Benthic Druid

Tatyova, Benthic Druid

44.8% of decks · synergy 0.36

Tatyova, Benthic Druid already draws a card and gains life on each land drop, and layering Retreat to Coralhelm's scry or untap mode on top of that turns every land into a card-selection engine that keeps the land drops coming.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Retreat to Coralhelm is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but it has never found a home outside Commander. In competitive non-rotating formats the effect is too slow and too dependent on a creature-plus-bounce-land setup that other strategies dismantle easily. Commander is where it lives: the singleton format rewards enchantments that generate value over multiple turns, and the landfall-combo shells built around cards like Simic Growth Chamber are a Commander-specific phenomenon. In Oathbreaker it's technically playable but the 20-life format favors faster lines, so expect it to show up only in dedicated landfall builds there too.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.38 bulk tier

At $0.38, Retreat to Coralhelm sits firmly in bulk territory despite being a genuine combo engine in multiple Commander decks. The price reflects wide availability rather than low demand — it's a safe pick-up at this cost with no meaningful downside risk.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.