Staff of the Ages
Artifact
Creatures with landwalk abilities can be blocked as though they didn't have those abilities.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Ice Age
- Price
- $0.51
- EDHREC rank
- #30410
Staff of the Ages makes all your lands Forest, Island, Mountain, Plains, and Swamp simultaneously — every basic land type, all the time, on every land you control. At three mana with no activation cost, that's an absurd amount of fixing and synergy enablement for a single artifact.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Staff of the Ages earns its slot, unlocking fetch-land synergies, domain payoffs, and five-color fixing in decks that otherwise struggle to hit all their pips. In Legacy and Vintage it's technically legal but sees no competitive play — those formats move too fast for a do-nothing artifact that doesn't impact the board or the stack. Oathbreaker can use it in the same shell as Commander, primarily in domain or landfall builds that care about basic land types.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.51 bulk tier
At $0.51, Staff of the Ages sits firmly in bulk territory — cheap enough to throw into any five-color or domain build without a second thought. Bulk artifacts with niche but genuine applications tend to stay flat; don't expect movement in either direction.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.