The Cave of Two Lovers
Enchantment — Saga
(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)
I — Create two 1/1 white Ally creature tokens.
II — Search your library for a Mountain or Cave card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
III — Earthbend 3. (Target land you control becomes a 0/0 creature with haste that's still a land. Put three +1/+1 counters on it. When it dies or is exiled, return it to the battlefield tapped.)
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Avatar: The Last Airbender
- Price
- $0.21
- EDHREC rank
- #10594
The Cave of Two Lovers enters tapped and produces two mana of any color — that's an untapped dual's worth of fixing, delayed by one turn, on a land that costs nothing to include. For most decks it's a strict upgrade over a basic, and Bumi, Unleashed lists run it at a 25% clip because the trigger-on-bounce value chain wants flexible mana more than speed.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Bumi, Unleashed
Bumi, Unleashed bounces its own permanents repeatedly, and The Cave of Two Lovers returning to hand is a feature rather than a bug — each replay resets the enters-tapped clock and keeps two-color fixing flowing through a deck that wants to chain bounce triggers rather than race to turn three.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
The Cave of Two Lovers is legal across every major format except Pauper, but outside Commander it sees essentially no competitive play — two-color taplands are too slow for Modern and Pioneer, where the bar is Triomes or nothing. In Commander it earns its slot cleanly: a free dual that produces any two colors covers splashes, fixes three- and four-color manabases, and never costs a card. The one-turn delay barely registers in a 40-life multiplayer game where the average spell isn't cast until turn four anyway.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.21 bulk tier
At $0.21, The Cave of Two Lovers sits firmly in bulk territory and is about as safe a pickup as a Magic card gets — a dual land that produces any two colors simply doesn't lose relevance. Bulk dual lands rarely spike, but this one also rarely needs to.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.