Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
Instant // Land
Return target spell or nonland permanent an opponent controls to its owner's hand.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Modern Horizons 3
- Price
- $6.42
- EDHREC rank
- #180
Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs bounces a nonland permanent and replaces itself with a card, then flips into a land that taps for blue mana and can repeatedly tap down opposing permanents — two modes of disruption stapled to a mana-fixing back half. Ral, Monsoon Mage in particular pushes this card over the edge, since the spell side counts toward spell-cast triggers while the land side fuels future casts without costing a draw.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Ral, Monsoon Mage
Ral, Monsoon Mage wants Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs because the spell side fires his storm-counting ability while the land back half means the card never becomes dead mana in hand — it's a spell when you need tempo and a land when you need resources.
Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy
Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy runs Soporific Springs as a mana-producing land that slots cleanly into the blue-green mana base, and the bounce mode on Sink into Stupor gives the deck a flexible answer to hate pieces like Cursed Totem that would otherwise lock Kinnan out entirely.
Tameshi, Reality Architect
Tameshi, Reality Architect can return Soporific Springs from the battlefield to hand to pay Tameshi's ability cost, then replay it as a free land drop — a clean loop that generates value from a card the deck would want anyway.
Tamiyo, Inquisitive Student
Tamiyo, Inquisitive Student leans on Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs for the instant-speed bounce that helps flip her to Tamiyo, Collector of Tales, and the tap-down ability on Soporific Springs lines up directly with her gameplan of controlling combat and board states.
Plagon, Lord of the Beach
Plagon, Lord of the Beach cares about tapping permanents, and Soporific Springs provides a repeatable tap outlet stapled to a land slot — Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs essentially gives Plagon decks a free roll on an enabler that pulls double duty in the mana base.
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 |
Commander is the format where Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs earns its slot — the MDFC structure is uniquely powerful in a singleton format where finding the right role at the right time matters, and the bounce-plus-draw on the spell side is real tempo against the permanents that define the format. In Legacy and Vintage, the card is legal but competes with far more efficient interaction at every mana cost, and the land back half is unimpressive when fetch-dual manabases already exist. Modern is legal territory as well, but a two-mana bounce that draws a card is only passable there, and the land entering tapped at sorcery speed for the tap ability makes Soporific Springs too slow for that format's pace. Oathbreaker parallels Commander closely — the same MDFC flexibility applies, and commanders with spell-cast or tap synergies will find the same value there.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Budget Alternatives
Cheaper options that do most of the same work
If the bounce-plus-draw is the primary appeal, Expel the Interlopers and Vapor Snag are cheaper alternatives that handle the instant-speed removal role, though neither provides a back half that converts into a land. For the tap-down utility of Soporific Springs specifically, Sunken Hollow or a basic Island captures the mana base slot at a fraction of the cost — you lose the activated tap ability, but if your deck isn't built around tapping synergies, the savings are worth it and Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs is best reserved for lists that genuinely exploit both halves.
Price Context
Current price
$6.42 mid tier
At $6.42, Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs sits in the mid tier — expensive enough to merit a slot justification, but not a budget breaker for a card that does legitimate work in the right shell. The price is driven primarily by its strong showing in Ral, Monsoon Mage lists and MDFC demand broadly, and it holds value as long as those commanders stay popular.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Ral, Monsoon Mage
- Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy
- Tameshi, Reality Architect
- Tamiyo, Inquisitive Student
- Plagon, Lord of the Beach
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.