Vision Charm
Instant
Choose one —
• Target player mills four cards.
• Choose a land type and a basic land type. Each land of the first chosen type becomes the second chosen type until end of turn.
• Target artifact phases out. (While it's phased out, it's treated as though it doesn't exist. It phases in before its controller untaps during their next untap step.)
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Secret Lair Drop
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #20331
Vision Charm does three meaningfully different things on one card — phase out a permanent, change a land's basic type, or alter a card's type at instant speed — and all three modes see real play. The Ugin's Nexus interaction alone (phase it out to deny the extra turn trigger) earns it a slot in any blue deck that cares about extra turns or turn-order manipulation.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Vision Charm is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, and it's nearly invisible in competitive Legacy and Vintage — the modes are too narrow against the threats those formats throw. Pauper is where Vision Charm occasionally shows up, because phasing out a blocker or changing a land type at instant speed can matter on a low-resource board. Commander is its real home: the phasing mode doubles as pseudo-removal or protection, the land-type mode enables janky but functional color-fixing in multicolor builds, and the type-change mode opens up niche combos that blue players love to exploit.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Ugin's NexusIsochron ScepterVision CharmMechanized Production
Infinite turns; Lock
View on Commander Spellbook ↗Price Context
Current price
unknown tier
Pricing data isn't available for Vision Charm right now, so check your preferred retailer for current copies. As a casual-Commander utility piece with a narrow competitive footprint, it historically sits in bulk-rare or cheap-uncommon territory — expect to pay very little, and pick up a copy whenever you see one in a binder.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Ugin's Nexus
- Isochron Scepter
- Mechanized Production
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.