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Commander's Sphere

Artifact

LegalRampCard DrawEDHREC #45

{T} : Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.

Why is this card good?

Commander's Sphere is one of the most-played mana rocks in the format for good reason: it fixes for any color in your commander's identity, making it especially valuable in three-, four-, and five-color decks where consistent fixing matters more than raw speed. The sacrifice-to-draw clause is what separates it from vanilla three-mana rocks — a dead rock late in the game becomes a fresh card. It slots into virtually any multicolor deck, but shines brightest in greedy WUBRG and Sultai/Jeskai-style piles that need fixing. It's also a quiet enabler for sacrifice and aristocrats decks that want artifacts to feed to Krark-Clan Ironworks, Daretti, or similar payoffs — you get value cracking it either way. Where it underperforms: dedicated cEDH and fast lists prefer two-mana rocks (Signets, Talismans, Arcane Signet) for tempo. In mono-color decks the fixing is irrelevant, so cheaper rocks win. Don't run it purely as a ramp piece — it's a fixing-plus-cantrip card, not a fast-mana enabler.

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Rulings (3)

2020-11-10
If your commander is a card that has no colors in its color identity, Commander's Sphere's first ability produces no mana. It doesn't produce .
2020-11-10
If you don't have a commander, Commander's Sphere's first ability produces no mana.
2020-11-10
If you have two commanders, the ability adds one mana of any color in their combined color identities.