First printed in Mercadian Masques (1999)

Tidal Bore

Instant

You may return an Island you control to its owner's hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
You may tap or untap target creature.

MTGO price: 0.04 TIX, the cheapest non-foil print (average sell price on GoatBots, 28 Oct 2026).

In the last 30 days 2.4% of Commander decks played it (147 of 6150). Most played in Crystal, Inhuman Princess.

Staple

Last 120 days of MTGO results and paper tournaments.

9 combos from Commander Spellbook, the most popular first.

Meta: share of the archetype in the format
Play it: decks of the archetype that play this card
Together: decks with this card that also play the other one (main deck)
Lift: how much more often than chance: 1 = unrelated, above 1 = played together on purpose

In 147 of 6150 decks (2.4%).

Share of decks

2.4%

▲ 0.2 vs previous 30 days

Weekly, last 90 days

Decks

147

147 main, 0 sideboard

Avg. copies

1.0

in the main deck

Win rate

38%

40 top 8 (challenges only)

Deck	Record
Arcum Dagsson Sendoa Cardiel in CEDH Norte Bilbao + Zaragoza + Pamplona	5-1 83%
Crystal, Inhuman Princess Justin Nosek in Paragon Gaming October 24th CEDH $3K	4-2 67%
Crystal, Inhuman Princess Collin Barnabo in CEDH at New City Brewery Part 3	3-2 60%
Jhoira, Ageless Innovator Dorian Gallo in Commander Invitational Qualifier - Worldfire Games	3-2 60%
Crystal, Inhuman Princess Ethan Hoff in Commander Invitational Qualifier - Gamer Geeks	3-2 60%
Stella Lee, Wild Card Brandon Gilliam [STORMSCALE] in CEDH Monthly Dual Land Tournament - October	3-2 60%
Arcum Dagsson FlexGod [TYRNT] in BAKED ZITI 4: Goldsabertooth’s NY cEDH	3-2 60%
Arcum Dagsson Nathaniel Smith in Mario's Birthday Madness	3-3 50%

Challenges only: MTGO publishes only the 5-0 league decks.

Deck	Copies	Finish
Crystal, Inhuman Princess Alistaire Martin (ATP], 25 Oct	1 main	#8 1-1
Niv-Mizzet, Parun Cameron Carpenter, 25 Oct	1 main	#22 0-3
Arcum Dagsson Nathaniel Smith, 25 Oct	1 main	#4 3-3
Arcum Dagsson Blayne Severson, 25 Oct	1 main	#5 3-1
Stella Lee, Wild Card Benjamin Clement, 25 Oct	1 main	#44 0-3
Arcum Dagsson Adam Barda, 25 Oct	1 main	#5 2-3
Crystal, Inhuman Princess Dan F Beiden, 25 Oct	1 main	#1 3-0
Crystal, Inhuman Princess Chris Friendly, 25 Oct	1 main	#14 1-1

No recent decks in: Legacy, Vintage, Pauper, Premodern, Duel Commander.