Riptide
Instant
Tap all blue creatures.
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- The Dark
- Price
- $0.30
- EDHREC rank
- #27985
Riptide is a land that taps for blue mana and can bounce a target creature back to its owner's hand — the flexibility of a removal-adjacent effect stapled to a mana source. The opportunity cost is real since it enters tapped, but in formats that reward bounce effects or exploit enter-the-battlefield triggers, Riptide pulls its weight.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Riptide sees essentially no play in Legacy or Vintage, where the bar for utility lands is set by outlets that generate immediate, broken value. In Commander, Riptide finds its niche in decks that want repeatable bounce — protecting a key creature from removal, resetting a powerful ETB trigger, or disrupting an opponent's setup at instant speed. Pauper and Oathbreaker are legal homes as well, though neither format has made Riptide a staple.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.30 bulk tier
At $0.30, Riptide sits firmly in bulk territory — it's the kind of card you pick out of a dollar box or grab as a throw-in without thinking twice. Bulk utility lands rarely appreciate unless a breakout commander pushes demand, so don't expect the price to move.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.