Shifting Sky
Enchantment
As this enchantment enters, choose a color.
All nonland permanents are the chosen color.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Eighth Edition
- Price
- $0.42
- EDHREC rank
- #18613
Shifting Sky turns every nonland permanent in play into a chosen color, which can lock opponents out of entire enchantments like Light of Day or supercharge commanders that care about creature type or color-matters triggers. Three mana for a global color-switch is a real rate, and the effect hits all permanents simultaneously — this isn't a niche piece, it's a build-around.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Shifting Sky is a Commander card through and through — the global effect scales with table size, and multiplayer games offer enough variety in color dependencies to make the choice meaningful. In Legacy and Vintage it's legal but competes with faster, more decisive interaction, and no competitive archetype wants it. Modern is the same story: three mana for a soft lock that opponents can answer at instant speed doesn't clear the bar. Commander is where Shifting Sky actually wins games, particularly in enchantress shells or alongside color-hate pieces that punish the chosen color hard.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Light of DayShifting Sky
Creatures can't attack; Creatures can't block; Lock
View on Commander Spellbook ↗Price Context
Current price
$0.42 bulk tier
At $0.42, Shifting Sky is firmly bulk — easy to acquire and cheap to slot into any build that wants it. Bulk enchantments with niche combo applications tend to stay in this range indefinitely, so there's no urgency either way.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.