Swirl the Mists
Enchantment
As this enchantment enters, choose a color word.
All instances of color words in the text of spells and permanents are changed to the chosen color word.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Champions of Kamigawa
- Price
- $0.40
- EDHREC rank
- #20696
Swirl the Mists renames every color in the game to a word of your choice for as long as it stays on the battlefield — a global, persistent color-renaming effect that no other card replicates. The four-mana enchantment is a niche piece, but in the right shell it creates lock conditions and rules-text exploits that are genuinely unreproducible.
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 |
Swirl the Mists is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but its play rate outside Commander is effectively zero — the card demands a dedicated shell to do anything meaningful, and constructed formats don't support that kind of setup cost. In Commander, it earns a slot in decks that weaponize color-naming: commanders or cards that reference a chosen color by name become far more powerful when you control what that name means. Legacy and Vintage technically allow it, but no competitive archetype has ever wanted it.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.40 bulk tier
At $0.40, Swirl the Mists sits firmly in bulk territory. It's a low-demand card with a narrow use case, so don't expect the price to move unless a new commander prints that breaks color-naming wide open.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.