Rhythmic Water Vortex
Sorcery
Return up to two target creatures to their owner's hand.
Search your library and/or graveyard for a card named Mu Yanling, reveal it, and put it into your hand. If you searched your library this way, shuffle.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Global Series Jiang Yanggu & Mu Yanling
- Price
- $0.21
- EDHREC rank
- #29023
Rhythmic Water Vortex bounces up to three creatures and draws you a card for four mana at instant speed — that's a tempo swing and a cantrip stapled together. The cost is real, but the flexibility to hit one, two, or three targets makes it punching above its mana value in blue creature-heavy pods.
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 |
Commander is where Rhythmic Water Vortex earns its slot — multiplayer tables run enough creatures that hitting three targets is routine, and the instant speed means you can use it as a combat trick or a response to an incoming threat. Legacy and Vintage have it on the legality list, but neither format has any interest in a four-mana bounce spell when Brainstorm and Swords to Plowshares exist. Rhythmic Water Vortex is effectively a Commander card, and a niche one at that, best in decks that want to reset their own enters-the-battlefield creatures while disrupting opponents.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.21 bulk tier
At $0.21, Rhythmic Water Vortex is deep bulk — you're not paying a premium for this effect. Bulk rares and uncommons at this price point don't hold or climb unless a combo or archetype adopts them, and nothing on the horizon suggests that's coming for this one.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.