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Upwelling

Enchantment

Players don't lose unspent mana as steps and phases end.

CMC
4
Mana cost
{3}{G}
Color identity
G
Rarity
rare
Set
Tenth Edition
Price
$1.35
EDHREC rank
#13579
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Upwelling card art
Upwelling turns every player's mana pool into a savings account — unused mana carries over between steps and phases, which means the deck that can exploit that storage wins the table and everyone else just funded it. It's a Sozin's Comet waiting to happen for any commander that wants to dump eight mana into a single activation the turn after it resolves.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Upwelling is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but it only does real work in Commander. Multiplayer makes the symmetry irrelevant — at a four-person table, three opponents benefiting still loses to one player who built around stored mana. In Legacy or Vintage the card is too slow and too situational to compete; no competitive deck there cares about carrying mana across phases when the game ends on turn one or two. Commander is the only home worth discussing, and even there Upwelling earns its slot only if your commander has a mana sink that scales with the surplus.

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Price Context

Current price

$1.35 cheap tier

At $1.35, Upwelling sits firmly in the bulk-rare tier — cheap enough to slot in without a second thought. Supply is stable and demand is niche, so the price is unlikely to move meaningfully in either direction.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.