The Monumental Facade
Land — Sphere
This land enters with two oil counters on it.
: Add 
., Remove an oil counter from this land: Put an oil counter on target artifact or creature you control. Activate only as a sorcery.
- CMC
- 0
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Phyrexia: All Will Be One
- Price
- $0.26
- EDHREC rank
- #13115
The Monumental Facade turns every land you control into a Monument counter engine, generating a growing board presence that compounds each turn cycle. Xolatoyac, the Smiling Flood is its natural home — the flood counters and Monument counters stack toward the same end state — but any deck that wants a passive, incremental threat for three mana will find it pulls its weight.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Xolatoyac, the Smiling Flood
Xolatoyac, the Smiling Flood and The Monumental Facade share the same counter-accumulation loop — every land drop feeds both engines simultaneously, meaning the Facade isn't just an inclusion here, it's a redundant copy of the deck's core plan.
Elesh Norn
Elesh Norn's go-wide token strategies turn The Monumental Facade's incremental Monument counters into a legitimate threat, adding bodies to a board that already pressures opponents through sheer presence and anthem effects.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
The Monumental Facade is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, and Oathbreaker — but Commander is the only format where it earns a slot. In competitive Constructed, three mana for a slow, incremental enchantment with no immediate impact is nowhere near the power threshold; Modern and Legacy have too much interaction and too fast a clock to let Monument counters accumulate into anything relevant. In Commander, the multiplayer pace and longer games are exactly the conditions where The Monumental Facade compounds into something opponents have to answer.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.26 bulk tier
At $0.26, The Monumental Facade is bulk — the cost of inclusion is effectively zero, and there's no price barrier to testing it. Bulk rares that see Commander play rarely spike meaningfully, so treat it as a permanent cheap pickup rather than a finance target.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Xolatoyac, the Smiling Flood
- Elesh Norn
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.