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Elminster

Legendary Planeswalker — Elminster

· WU

· #480 (5,582 decks)

Whenever you scry, the next instant or sorcery spell you cast this turn costs {X} less to cast, where X is the number of cards looked at while scrying this way. +2: Draw a card, then scry 2. −3: Exile the top card of your library. Create a number of 1/1 blue Faerie Dragon creature tokens with flying equal to that card's mana value. Elminster can be your commander.

Budget

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No tap-lands Fetchable only Snow basics

35 lands · total $37.60 budget: $100

Composition 20 Basics 5 Other Nonbasic 1 Battle Lands 1 Bond Lands 1 Check Lands 1 Karoos (Bouncelands) 1 Odyssey Filter Lands 1 Pain Lands 1 Reveal Lands (Shadows / Snarls) 1 Shock Lands 1 Slow Lands 1 Temples (Scry Lands)

Top Lands · By Real-Deck Inclusion

$37.60 15

Command Tower

86% of default decks

$0.23

Temple of Enlightenment

Basics

$1.20 20

Best Pricey Adds · Real-Deck Upgrades

Lands real expensive-variant Elminster decks run that your current build doesn't include yet. Ranked by how often they appear in actual decks.

Flooded Strand

87% of expensive decks

$15.93

Tundra

79% of expensive decks

$599.47

Otawara, Soaring City

66% of expensive decks

$30.83

Polluted Delta

51% of expensive decks

$19.69

Misty Rainforest

50% of expensive decks

$36.89

Scalding Tarn

49% of expensive decks

$38.34

Meticulous Archive

44% of expensive decks

$11.41

Arid Mesa

43% of expensive decks

$32.67

Marsh Flats

42% of expensive decks

$31.46

Windswept Heath

40% of expensive decks

$11.40

Urza's Saga

39% of expensive decks

$34.81

Floodfarm Verge

37% of expensive decks

$8.40

About This Manabase

Elminster is a WU commander with a WU color identity, so any land that produces only those colors is fair game. Our auto-built manabase above starts at the Optimized $100 tier and ranks every pick by how often real EDHREC decks actually run it — so shocks and fetches show up where the budget allows, dropping to scry lands, gain lands, and tap-duals as the cap tightens.

Pick a tier above to reshape the manabase. The Budget ($25) tier mirrors what budget-deck players actually run — mostly basics and the cheapest utility lands; Optimized ($100) shifts to the “default” EDHREC variant with shocks, fast lands, and a couple of fetches when the budget allows; Unlimited uses the expensive-variant data — originals, full fetch suites, and premium duals appear when in identity. Filter out tap-lands for faster decks, or pin yourself to fetchable lands for a fetch-heavy ramp shell.