Veinfire Borderpost
Artifact
You may pay 
and return a basic land you control to its owner's hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
This artifact enters tapped.
: Add 
or 
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- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BR
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Alara Reborn
- Price
- $0.27
- EDHREC rank
- #16733
Veinfire Borderpost is a tapped mana rock that produces black or red, enters for one mana if you bounce a basic land, and counts as an artifact — the artifact typing is the entire reason to run it. Outside of decks that specifically care about artifact count, it's worse than a Rakdos Signet in almost every way.
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 |
In Commander, Veinfire Borderpost earns a slot almost exclusively in artifact-matters decks — Breya, Etherium Shaper or Lonis, Cryptozoologist style shells that need cheap artifacts on the board more than they need efficient mana. In Pauper, it sees fringe play in Tortured Existence and Jeskai artifact brews where the low mana investment matters. Legacy and Vintage have zero interest in it — the formats move too fast for a tapped rock with no upside beyond its type. Veinfire Borderpost is a narrow role-player, not a generic fixer.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.27 bulk tier
At $0.27, Veinfire Borderpost is deep bulk — you're paying for the cardboard, not any scarcity. It's been reprinted enough that the price won't move, so grab a copy whenever it comes up and don't think twice about it.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.