Vivid Creek
Land
This land enters tapped with two charge counters on it.
: Add 
., Remove a charge counter from this land: Add one mana of any color.
- CMC
- 0
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- New Capenna Commander
- Price
- $0.29
- EDHREC rank
- #4243
Vivid Creek enters tapped with two charge counters, giving you two additional blue mana draws before it falls back to a vanilla tapped Island — the setup cost is real, but Xolatoyac, the Smiling Flood reloads those counters on command, turning a finite resource into an indefinite one. Outside that specific engine, it's a role-player in five-color good-stuff piles that need to hit every color, not a staple.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Xolatoyac, the Smiling Flood
Xolatoyac, the Smiling Flood places +1/+1 counters and moves counters around the battlefield, and Vivid Creek's charge counters fall directly in that taxon — Xolatoyac can replenish them, meaning the land never goes dry and always taps for blue in any shell that wants consistent off-color fixing.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Vivid Creek is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but it sees virtually no play outside Commander. In Legacy and Vintage the opportunity cost of a tapped land is prohibitive — those formats punish tempo losses immediately. Modern has access to far superior fixing at the same price point, so Vivid Creek doesn't compete there either. Commander is where it earns its slot: the slower pace absorbs the enters-tapped penalty, and multicolor decks regularly need a fifth or sixth source of a specific color without committing to a dual that costs ten times as much.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.29 bulk tier
At $0.29, Vivid Creek is deep bulk — a zero-stress inclusion that won't move the needle on any deck's budget. Supply is high enough across multiple printings that the price is stable; don't expect it to spike or sink.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.