Travel Through Caradhras
Sorcery
Council's dilemma — Starting with you, each player votes for Redhorn Pass or Mines of Moria. For each Redhorn Pass vote, search your library for a basic land card and put it onto the battlefield tapped. If you search your library this way, shuffle. For each Mines of Moria vote, return a card from your graveyard to your hand.
Exile Travel Through Caradhras.
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Tales of Middle-earth Commander
- Price
- $0.38
- EDHREC rank
- #12236
Travel Through Caradhras puts a land directly onto the battlefield and draws a card — that's two effects on one card, and the Ring-tempts-you rider is a free bonus in any deck that cares about it. Galadriel, Elven-Queen turns that Ring temptation into immediate value, making this a strict upgrade over most three-mana ramp in her builds.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Galadriel, Elven-Queen
Galadriel, Elven-Queen triggers off every Ring temptation, so Travel Through Caradhras ramps, refills your hand, and advances her engine all on the same card — it appears in over half of her registered lists for exactly that reason.
Círdan the Shipwright
Círdan the Shipwright rewards Ring temptations with card draw, and Travel Through Caradhras stacks that trigger onto a ramp spell that already replaces itself, making it one of the more efficient three-drops in any deck he leads.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Travel Through Caradhras is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but its home is Commander — a 100-card singleton format where the Ring mechanic has a critical mass of payoffs and ramp-plus-draw on one card is genuinely valuable. In Legacy and Vintage, a three-mana ramp spell that puts a basic into play is far too slow to compete, so those legalities are effectively irrelevant. Oathbreaker is the one non-Commander venue where it could see real play, particularly under a Galadriel-type signature spell shell that wants Ring triggers.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.38 bulk tier
At $0.38, Travel Through Caradhras sits firmly in bulk territory — easy to acquire, easy to cut without regret. Bulk ramp spells rarely climb unless a new commander breaks the mechanic wide open, so treat it as a cheap inclusion rather than a hold.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.