Lidless Gaze
Lidless Gaze: Sorcery, Tales of Middle-earth Commander. Exile the top card of each player's library. Printings, prices, and format legality on Mana Grove.
- Mana cost
- {2}{B}{R}
- Mana value
- 4
- Type
- Sorcery
- Colour identity
- Black and red (BR)
- Rarity
- Rare
- Set
- Tales of Middle-earth Commander (LTC)
- Released
- 2023-06-23
- Collector number
- 59
- Artist
- Yigit Koroglu
- Commander rank
- 11,880 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)
- Keywords
- Flashback
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About Lidless Gaze
Lidless Gaze is a Magic: The Gathering card, a rare black and red sorcery from Tales of Middle-earth Commander (LTC), a Commander product released in June 2023. It is collector number 59 in that set, with art by Yigit Koroglu. It costs {2}{B}{R} (two generic, one black and one red mana) to cast, for a mana value of 4. Its colour identity is black and red. It is legal in Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander and Oathbreaker. Tales of Middle-earth Commander is its only printing so far. The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $0.36 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-03).
Card text
Exile the top card of each player's library. Until the end of your next turn, you may play those cards, and mana of any type can be spent to cast those spells.
Flashback {2}{B}{R} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
Market price
Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $0.36 (as of 2026-11-03).
The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.
Format legality
Legality of Lidless Gaze by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.
| Legacy | Legal |
|---|---|
| Vintage | Legal |
| Commander | Legal |
| Duel Commander | Legal |
| Oathbreaker | Legal |
Other printings of Lidless Gaze
The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.
| Printing | Rarity | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Tales of Middle-earth Commander (LTC) #466 | Rare | 2023 |
| Tales of Middle-earth Commander (LTC) #141 | Rare | 2023 |
Official rulings
Two official rulings apply to Lidless Gaze, newest first.
- Snow mana is not a type of mana. Lidless Gaze won't let you pay a snow cost using mana produced by a nonsnow source.
- Lidless Gaze uses a new template indicating that you may spend mana as though it were mana of any type to cast the exiled cards. The six types of mana are white, blue, black, red, green, and colorless.
Similar cards
Other sorcery cards with a black and red colour identity, ranked by how often they appear in Commander decks.
In these precons
Lidless Gaze is in the decklist of these preconstructed Commander decks.