High-Power Budget Tier

Best Commander Cards Under $5.00

The $5 price cap unlocks elite tournament-grade power: Diabolic Intent, Growing Rites of Itlimoc, Ashnod's Altar, Heroic Intervention alternatives, and efficient pain lands. Build high-synergy decks without $50+ staples.

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Abjure

Instant1 CMC
$2.02
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As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a blue permanent. Counter target spell.

#counterspell#interrupt

Sejiri Shelter // Sejiri Glacier

Instant // Land2 CMC
$2.04
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Target creature you control gains protection from the color of your choice until end of turn. // This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {W}.

#activated-ability#alliteration#cheaper-than-mv

Cabal Pit

Land0 CMC
$2.04
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{T}: Add {B}. This land deals 1 damage to you. Threshold — {B}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Target creature gets -2/-2 until end of turn. Activate only if there are seven or more cards in your graveyard.

#activated-ability#burn-you#mana-ability-with-extra-effect

Mines of Moria

Legendary Land0 CMC
$2.06
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Mines of Moria enters tapped unless you control a legendary creature. {T}: Add {R}. {3}{R}, {T}, Exile three cards from your graveyard: Create two Treasure tokens.

#activated-ability#alliteration#filterland

Argoth, Sanctum of Nature

Land0 CMC
$2.11
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This land enters tapped unless you control a legendary green creature. {T}: Add {G}. {2}{G}{G}, {T}: Create a 2/2 green Bear creature token, then mill three cards. Activate only as a sorcery. (Melds with Titania, Voice of Gaea.)

#activated-ability#conditional-tapland#mana-sink

Archmage's Charm

Instant3 CMC
$2.11
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Choose one — • Counter target spell. • Target player draws two cards. • Gain control of target nonland permanent with mana value 1 or less.

#counterspell#cycle-arch-charm#force-draw

Hanweir Battlements

Land0 CMC
$2.15
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{T}: Add {C}. {R}, {T}: Target creature gains haste until end of turn. {3}{R}{R}, {T}: If you both own and control this land and a creature named Hanweir Garrison, exile them, then meld them into Hanweir, the Writhing Township.

#activated-ability#gives-haste#repeatable-crime

Ishgard, the Holy See // Faith & Grief

Land — Town // Sorcery — Adventure0 CMC
$2.23
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This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {W}. // Return up to two target artifact and/or enchantment cards from your graveyard to your hand. (Then exile this card. You may play the land later from exile.)

#activated-ability#exile-self#hand-positive

Barad-dûr

Legendary Land0 CMC
$2.29
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Barad-dûr enters tapped unless you control a legendary creature. {T}: Add {B}. {X}{X}{B}, {T}: Amass Orcs X. Activate only if a creature died this turn.

#activated-ability#bottomless-mana-sink#gives-pp-counters

Render Silent

Instant3 CMC
$2.37
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Counter target spell. Its controller can't cast spells this turn.

#counterspell#silence

Radiant Fountain

Land0 CMC
$2.39
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When this land enters, you gain 2 life. {T}: Add {C}.

#activated-ability#gainland#triggered-ability

Sokenzan, Crucible of Defiance

Legendary Land0 CMC
$2.51
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{T}: Add {R}. Channel — {3}{R}, Discard this card: Create two 1/1 colorless Spirit creature tokens. They gain haste until end of turn. This ability costs {1} less to activate for each legendary creature you control.

#activate-from-hand#cycle-neo-legendary-land#synergy-legendary

Secret Tunnel

Land — Cave0 CMC
$2.51
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This land can't be blocked. {T}: Add {C}. {4}, {T}: Two target creatures you control that share a creature type can't be blocked this turn.

#activated-ability#creature-ability-noncreature#fun-ruling

The Eternity Elevator

Legendary Artifact — Spacecraft5 CMC
$2.52
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{T}: Add {C}{C}{C}. Station (Tap another creature you control: Put charge counters equal to its power on this Spacecraft. Station only as a sorcery.) 20+ | {T}: Add X mana of any one color, where X is the number of charge counters on The Eternity Elevator.

#activated-ability#adds-multiple-mana#alliteration

Dawn Charm

Instant2 CMC
$2.52
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Choose one — • Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn. • Regenerate target creature. • Counter target spell that targets you.

#color-break#combat-trick#counterspell

Rakdos Signet

Artifact2 CMC
$2.53
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{1}, {T}: Add {B}{R}.

#activated-ability#cycle-rav-signet#mana-rock

Access Denied

Instant5 CMC
$2.57
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Counter target spell. Create X 1/1 colorless Thopter artifact creature tokens with flying, where X is that spell's mana value.

#aikido#counterspell#evasion

Thran Turbine

Artifact1 CMC
$2.70
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At the beginning of your upkeep, you may add {C}{C}. This mana can't be spent to cast spells.

#adds-multiple-mana#alliteration#mana-rock

Geier Reach Sanitarium

Legendary Land0 CMC
$2.88
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{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}: Each player draws a card, then discards a card.

#activated-ability#discard#force-draw

Hidden Hideout

Land0 CMC
$2.91
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This land enters tapped. {T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity. {2}, {T}: Target creature you control with a counter on it gains lifelink until end of turn.

#activated-ability#counters-matter#gives-lifelink

Sanctum of Ugin

Land0 CMC
$2.94
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{T}: Add {C}. Whenever you cast a colorless spell with mana value 7 or greater, you may sacrifice this land. If you do, search your library for a colorless creature card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

#activated-ability#cast-trigger-you#mana-value-matters

Tyrite Sanctum

Land0 CMC
$2.95
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{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}: Target legendary creature becomes a God in addition to its other types. Put a +1/+1 counter on it. {4}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Put an indestructible counter on target God.

#activated-ability#gives-indestructible#gives-pp-counters

Karn's Bastion

Land0 CMC
$2.97
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{T}: Add {C}. {4}, {T}: Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

#activated-ability#mana-sink#namesake-spell