Leyline of Anticipation

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Leyline of Anticipation: Enchantment, Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate. Printings, market prices, rulings, and format legality on Mana Grove.

Mana cost
{2}{U}{U}
Mana value
4
Type
Enchantment
Colour identity
Blue (U)
Rarity
Rare
Set
Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate (CLB)
Released
2022-06-10
Collector number
726
Artist
Charles Urbach
Commander rank
723 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)

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About Leyline of Anticipation

Leyline of Anticipation is a Magic: The Gathering card, a rare blue enchantment from Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate (CLB), a draft-focused set released in June 2022. It is collector number 726 in that set, with art by Charles Urbach. It costs {2}{U}{U} (two generic and two blue mana) to cast, for a mana value of 4. Its colour identity is blue. It is legal in Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander, Oathbreaker, PreDH, Brawl, Historic, Timeless, Gladiator and Penny Dreadful. It has been printed in 6 sets, from Magic 2011 (2010) to Wilds of Eldraine: Enchanting Tales (2023). The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $5.36 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-12).

Card text

If this card is in your opening hand, you may begin the game with it on the battlefield.

You may cast spells as though they had flash.

Market price

Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $5.36 (as of 2026-11-12).

The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.

Format legality

Legality of Leyline of Anticipation by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.

PioneerLegal
ModernLegal
LegacyLegal
VintageLegal
CommanderLegal
Duel CommanderLegal
OathbreakerLegal
PreDHLegal
BrawlLegal
HistoricLegal
TimelessLegal
GladiatorLegal
Penny DreadfulLegal

Other printings of Leyline of Anticipation

Leyline of Anticipation has been printed in 6 sets. The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.

PrintingRarityYear
Wizards Play Network 2026 (PW26) #23Rare2026
Wilds of Eldraine: Enchanting Tales (WOT) #23Rare2023
Core Set 2020 (M20) #64Rare2019
Core Set 2020 Promos (PM20) #64pRare2019
Core Set 2020 Promos (PM20) #64sRare2019
Magic 2011 (M11) #61Rare2010

Official rulings

One official ruling applies to Leyline of Anticipation.

  • A player's "opening hand" is the hand of cards the player has after all players have taken mulligans. If players have any cards in hand that allow actions to be taken with them from a player's opening hand, the starting player takes all such actions first in any order, followed by each other player in turn order. Then the first turn begins.

Similar cards

Other enchantment cards with a blue colour identity, ranked by how often they appear in Commander decks.

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Leyline of Anticipation is in the decklist of these preconstructed Commander decks.

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