Sea Gate
Land — Gate
This land enters tapped.
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- CMC
- 0
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate
- Price
- $1.47
- EDHREC rank
- #2335
Sea Gate enters tapped, but in the right deck it replaces itself with a card — a land that draws is a fundamentally different resource than a land that doesn't. Nine-Fingers Keene decks run it at a near-universal rate because the activated ability slots directly into the gates-matter engine, making the tempo cost irrelevant.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Nine-Fingers Keene
Nine-Fingers Keene demands Gates, and Sea Gate is both a Gate that replaces itself and a mana source — it does two jobs in a deck that wants every land slot to pull weight.
Archelos, Lagoon Mystic
Archelos, Lagoon Mystic turns off the enters-tapped downside entirely when the turtle is face-down, making Sea Gate a free cantrip land that slots cleanly into the tap-land-matters shell.
Omo, Queen of Vesuva
Sea Gate's Gate subtype becomes a live target for Omo, Queen of Vesuva's counter-spreading ability, and the card-draw trigger means it generates immediate value before the type-manipulation engine even spins up.
Go-Shintai of Life's Origin
Go-Shintai of Life's Origin runs a high density of non-basic lands with relevant subtypes, and Sea Gate earns its slot by drawing a card — raw value that any shrine deck will take regardless of Gate synergy.
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 |
Commander is where Sea Gate does its real work: gates-matter strategies are almost exclusively an EDH phenomenon, and the cantrip trigger is worth a full land slot in any deck built around Nine-Fingers Keene or similar commanders. In Legacy and Vintage, a tapped land that draws one card is too slow to see meaningful play outside fringe Gate tribal shells. Pauper is the only competitive format where Sea Gate could see occasional use, since cantrip lands have historically over-performed at common rarity when the format slows down enough to tolerate the tempo loss. Oathbreaker mirrors Commander's verdict — run it if your oathbreaker cares about Gates, skip it otherwise.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$1.47 cheap tier
At $1.47, Sea Gate sits in the cheap tier and is a straightforward auto-include pickup for any deck that wants it. Cantrip lands with relevant subtypes hold their price floor reliably, so there's no reason to wait.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.