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Seat of the Synod

Artifact Land

{T}: Add {U}.

CMC
0
Mana cost
Color identity
U
Rarity
common
Set
Commander 2016
Price
$1.60
EDHREC rank
#334
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Seat of the Synod card art
Seat of the Synod taps for blue mana and counts as an artifact the moment it hits the battlefield — that dual identity is the entire reason to run it. Commanders like Tameshi, Reality Architect and Golbez, Crystal Collector don't want a basic Island; they want a land that fuels artifact synergies simultaneously, and Seat of the Synod delivers that at zero additional cost.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Seat of the Synod is banned in Modern, where a free artifact-land in Affinity and related strategies proved too efficient — the combination of colored mana production and artifact-count padding with no deck-building cost broke the format's threat calculus. Vintage and Legacy tolerate it because those formats have faster, more busted things happening and robust answers to artifact-heavy strategies. Commander gives it a full pass for two reasons: the slower, multiplayer environment means explosive artifact-land synergies rarely end the game before opponents can respond, and four opponents mean four threat assessments pulling resources away from any single Seat of the Synod synergy.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Golbez, Crystal Collector

Golbez, Crystal Collector

87.3% of decks · synergy 0.82

Golbez, Crystal Collector taxes opponents for playing artifacts, so every artifact in the deck — including Seat of the Synod — is a permanent that triggers or benefits from his artifact-matters payoffs while still producing blue mana for the control shell.

02
Saheeli, the Gifted

Saheeli, the Gifted

90.9% of decks · synergy 0.81

Saheeli, the Gifted reduces artifact spell costs by one for each artifact you control, so Seat of the Synod is quietly one of the cheapest cost-reducers in the deck — it enters free, immediately counts toward her discount, and still produces blue mana.

03
Urza, Chief Artificer

Urza, Chief Artificer

87.2% of decks · synergy 0.78

Urza, Chief Artificer makes artifact creatures into threats that scale with your artifact count, and Seat of the Synod pads that count for free — it's a land slot doing the work of an artifact slot without any real deckbuilding cost.

04
Mishra, Eminent One

Mishra, Eminent One

83.2% of decks · synergy 0.78

Mishra, Eminent One copies noncreature artifacts at combat, and the more artifacts already on the board, the more threatening those copies become — Seat of the Synod inflates that count from turn one while functioning as a land.

05
Inspirit, Flagship Vessel

Inspirit, Flagship Vessel

85.7% of decks · synergy 0.72

Inspirit, Flagship Vessel cares about artifacts entering the battlefield and fueling crew or synergy triggers, and Seat of the Synod slots in as a land that also satisfies those artifact-entry conditions without occupying a nonland slot.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$1.60 cheap tier

At $1.60, Seat of the Synod sits in the budget-staple tier — cheap enough to include without deliberation in any artifact-focused Commander deck. The price is stable given its widespread play and consistent demand; don't expect it to drop further or spike dramatically.

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