The Prima Vista
Legendary Artifact — Vehicle
Flying
Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, if at least four mana was spent to cast it, The Prima Vista becomes an artifact creature until end of turn.
Crew 2 (Tap any number of creatures you control with total power 2 or more: This Vehicle becomes an artifact creature until end of turn.)
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Final Fantasy
- Price
- $0.08
- EDHREC rank
- #19615
The Prima Vista taps for any color of mana as long as you control your commander — effectively a five-color land with a one-time setup cost of casting your commander first. Outside that condition it enters tapped and produces colorless, so it belongs exclusively in decks that plan to have their commander on the battlefield early and often.
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 |
Commander is the only format where The Prima Vista earns its slot — the card is literally built around the commander mechanic, and in a 100-card singleton environment a five-color fixer is genuinely valuable for multicolor commanders who need it. In competitive Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, or Vintage mana bases, lands that conditionally tap for any color are far too unreliable to displace Triomes, fetchlands, or duals. Standard is where it's technically legal but practically irrelevant outside very specific commander-themed brews. Oathbreaker mirrors Commander's logic — if your signature spell or planeswalker is already in play, The Prima Vista performs; otherwise it's a worse Wastes.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.08 bulk tier
At $0.08, The Prima Vista is deep bulk — a pickup cost so low that any multicolor Commander deck with a reliable early commander can run it without a second thought. Bulk lands rarely appreciate unless reprinted into scarcity, so treat this as a cheap utility inclusion, not a hold.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.