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Spara's Headquarters

Land — Forest Plains Island

({T}: Add {G}, {W}, or {U}.)
This land enters tapped.
Cycling {3} ({3}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

CMC
0
Mana cost
Color identity
GUW
Rarity
rare
Set
Streets of New Capenna
Price
$13.46
EDHREC rank
#389
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Spara's Headquarters card art
Spara's Headquarters enters untapped, produces any of three colors, and cycles itself for two mana — a triome that earns its slot in any Bant, Abzan, or five-color shell. Commanders like Tom Bombadil that trigger off cycling treat it as a free cantrip stapled to a land, and the interaction with Escape Protocol makes it a repeatable engine piece rather than a one-shot fixer.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Tom Bombadil

Tom Bombadil

35.4% of decks · synergy 0.16

Tom Bombadil triggers off every saga counter placed, and Spara's Headquarters doubles as a cheap cycling spell that fuels that engine while fixing mana — 35% of Tom Bombadil decks run it for exactly that reason.

02
Falco Spara, Pactweaver

Falco Spara, Pactweaver

55.7% of decks · synergy 0.16

Falco Spara, Pactweaver sits in Bant, and Spara's Headquarters is a on-color triome that fixes all three pips while cycling away when it's no longer needed — over half of Falco Spara, Pactweaver decks include it as a low-cost mana consistency piece.

03

Esika, God of the Tree

30.6% of decks · synergy 0.11

Esika, God of the Tree demands five-color fixing, and Spara's Headquarters covers green-white-blue while cycling into more gas in the late game — roughly 30% of Esika, God of the Tree decks run it as part of a triome package.

05
Katilda and Lier

Katilda and Lier

50.8% of decks · synergy 0.11

Katilda and Lier operates in blue-white-green and benefits from any extra card selection, so Spara's Headquarters fills the fixing role early and converts to a draw step late — just over half of Katilda and Lier decks include it.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Spara's Headquarters is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but Commander is where it does the most work. In 60-card formats, triomes compete against faster dual lands and the cycling cost matters more when you're trying to hit two lands by turn two; they see fringe play in slower midrange or control shells that can afford the tempo. In Commander, the calculus flips — entering untapped means there's no tempo loss at all, and the cycling outlet turns a flood land into a late-game card, which is exactly what multicolor goodstuff decks want. Oathbreaker is a natural fit for any deck in the Bant, Abzan, or five-color slice of the color wheel.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Budget Alternatives

Cheaper options that do most of the same work

If Spara's Headquarters is out of range, Seaside Citadel is the closest budget replacement — it also produces white, blue, and green, but it enters tapped with no cycling upside, so you trade the late-game flexibility for roughly ten dollars in savings. Canopy Vista and Prairie Stream hit two of the three colors at under a dollar each and occasionally enter untapped, but you lose the Bant consolidation that makes Spara's Headquarters worth a single slot.

Price Context

Current price

$13.46 mid tier

At $13.46, Spara's Headquarters sits in the mid tier for Commander staples — expensive enough to feel like a deliberate inclusion, cheap enough that any Bant or five-color deck should just run it. Triome prices tend to hold because demand is spread across multiple formats and the cycling rider gives them a floor that basic-land replacements without upside don't enjoy.

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