Tideshaper Mystic
Creature — Merfolk Wizard
: Target land becomes the basic land type of your choice until end of turn. Activate only during your turn.
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Lorwyn
- Price
- $0.30
- EDHREC rank
- #19444
Tideshaper Mystic gives you a repeatable, tap-activated land-type reassignment on a 1/1 body for one blue mana — the effect is real, the creature is fragile. It earns a slot only in decks that specifically exploit basic land types, and nowhere else.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Tideshaper Mystic is a niche tool in Commander, where land-type manipulation matters most in landfall decks that care about Forests or Islands specifically, or in builds that want to enable domain and related mechanics. In Legacy and Vintage, a 1/1 for one blue with a tap ability is too slow to register — those formats don't have room for incremental utility creatures that don't affect the board immediately. Pauper is the most plausible competitive home, where common-only card pools make repeatable effects more valuable and redundancy harder to find. Oathbreaker mirrors the Commander case: worth considering only if your planeswalker's strategy leans on land-type specificity.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.30 bulk tier
At $0.30, Tideshaper Mystic is firmly bulk — you're paying for the effect, not the card. Bulk rares and uncommons at this price point rarely climb unless a new combo or mechanic suddenly makes land-type manipulation broken, so treat it as a cheap include and nothing more.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.