Card
Eluge, the Shoreless Sea
Mana cost {1}{U}{U}{U}
Legendary Creature — Elemental Fish */*
Eluge's power and toughness are each equal to the number of Islands you control. Whenever Eluge enters or attacks, put a flood counter on target land. It's an Island in addition to its other types for as long as it has a flood counter on it. The first instant or sorcery spell you cast each turn costs {U} (or {1}) less to cast for each land you control with a flood counter on it.
No bracket restriction: playable from bracket 1. 6 official rulings.
- Commander
- Legal
- Printing
- Mythic · BLB · #49
- Cheapest printing
- €2.76
- EDHREC salt
- 0.74
- Color identity
- Blue
Bracket
- B1 Exhibition — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B2 Core — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B3 Upgraded — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B4 Optimized — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
- B5 cEDH — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
Why
- No Game Changer, mass land denial, extra turn, tutor or two-card combo
How Lotus Vault estimates a bracket
Bracket: Lotus Vault analysis, with Commander Spellbook flags
Combos
No known combos for this card.
Combos: Commander Spellbook
Rulings
- 2024-07-26 · Wizards of the Coast
If the first instant or sorcery spell you cast in a turn doesn’t cost any {U}, its cost will be reduced by {1} for each land you control with a flood counter on it. - 2024-07-26 · Wizards of the Coast
In the case where the first instant or sorcery spell you cast in a turn does cost some {U} but you control more lands with flood counters on them than the number of {U} in that spell’s mana cost, all of the {U} in the cost are reduced first before moving on to the generic mana. For example, if you control four lands with flood counters on them and you cast Season of Weaving (a sorcery with mana cost {4}{U}{U}) as the first instant or sorcery spell of your turn, its cost will be reduced by {2}{U}{U}, meaning its total cost will be {2}. - 2024-07-26 · Wizards of the Coast
The land retains any land types and abilities it already had. An Island has the ability “{T}: Add {U}.” - 2024-07-26 · Wizards of the Coast
A land affected by Eluge’s second ability stays an Island until the flood counter is removed, even if Eluge leaves the battlefield. - 2024-07-26 · Wizards of the Coast
The ability that defines Eluge’s power and toughness functions in all zones, not just the battlefield. - 2024-07-26 · Wizards of the Coast
To determine the total cost of a spell, start with the mana cost or alternative cost you’re paying (such as a flashback cost), add any cost increases (such as kicker costs), then apply any cost reductions (such as that of this ability). The mana value of the spell is determined by only its mana cost, no matter what the total cost to cast that spell was.
Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast