Ritual of Subdual
Enchantment
Cumulative upkeep 
(At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this permanent, then sacrifice it unless you pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.)
If a land is tapped for mana, it produces colorless mana instead of any other type.
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Masters Edition II
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #25366
Ritual of Subdual locks every land on the board into producing only colorless mana — for six mana, you shut down every colored spell your opponents want to cast. It's a prison piece that wins on the spot in the right shell and does nothing in the wrong one.
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 |
Ritual of Subdual is a Commander card through and through — the political weight of a table-wide color lock matters far more in multiplayer than in any 1v1 setting. In Legacy and Vintage, where it's technically legal, six mana for a do-nothing-until-your-next-turn enchantment is unplayable; those formats kill you before it resolves. In Commander, it slots into green stax and land-hate strategies that can already generate colorless mana or have built around artifact acceleration, so the symmetry is largely one-sided. The six-mana investment is steep but acceptable when your commander or win condition doesn't need colored mana to close the game.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
unknown tier
Pricing data for Ritual of Subdual isn't currently available, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for the live number. It's a niche stax piece with a small audience, so supply tends to be low and copies can sit at a premium relative to its actual play rate — verify before buying.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.