Is Sunken Palace good in Commander?

Sunken Palace

Land — Cave

This land enters tapped.
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CMC: 0
Mana cost
Color identity: U
Rarity: rare
Set: Modern Horizons 3 Commander
Price: $0.79
EDHREC rank: #4297

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Sunken Palace turns every land you control into a mana source of any color, which is the kind of fixing that wins games on its own. The cost is real — it enters tapped and takes two blue to deploy — but commanders like Mister Fantastic and Omo, Queen of Vesuva exploit the subtype-stamping so aggressively that the tempo loss pays back fast.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

Omo, Queen of Vesuva

44.1% of decks · synergy 0.41

Omo, Queen of Vesuva places counters that give permanents additional types, and Sunken Palace ensures every land in play already carries the right subtype before those counters even land — the two cards form the backbone of the deck's mana and synergy engine.

Neerdiv, Devious Diver

19.6% of decks · synergy 0.16

Neerdiv, Devious Diver cares about Islands specifically, and Sunken Palace converts the entire land base into Islands, letting Neerdiv trigger off lands that would otherwise do nothing for the strategy.

Cormela, Glamour Thief

15.0% of decks · synergy 0.14

Cormela, Glamour Thief wants both blue and black mana on demand, and Sunken Palace removes the color-fixing tax entirely by making every land tap for either — straightforward value in a two-color pile that can't afford mana stumbles.

Eluge, the Shoreless Sea

14.8% of decks · synergy 0.11

Eluge, the Shoreless Sea rewards controlling lands with multiple basic land types, and Sunken Palace adds Island and Swamp to every land you own, dramatically widening the pool of lands that trigger or empower Eluge's abilities.

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 Sunken Palace does its best work — 100-card singleton means color fixing is genuinely scarce, and a land that stamps your entire base pays compounding dividends over a long game. In Legacy and Vintage it's legal but effectively irrelevant; those formats move too fast to spend two mana on a tapped land with no immediate board impact. Oathbreaker is a reasonable home for the same reasons as Commander, particularly in multicolor builds where the fixing matters.

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