It’s Edge of Eternities prerelease day, and with that comes Standard rotation. For the few who have tried to build decks in the new Standard environment, you may have noticed that the mana, while great for some archetypes, is incredibly uneven. Try building decks in Azorius or Selesnya, and you’ll see what we mean.
For Edge of Eternities, some color combinations will have way more support than others. While this is a bit frustrating, the good news is that we may not have to wait long for a solution. Spider-Man previews just revealed that a new land is coming. It’s quite powerful and may be exactly what we need to fix mana in Standard.
Multiversal Passage
This new Shock Land-esque MTG card is actually quite good. You can get any color of mana you want, and you can pay two mana for it to enter untapped. You’ll be stuck with whatever mana color you choose, but most of the time, that will be good enough to function. Between Multiversal Passage and Starting Town, any two-colored Standard deck should have strong enough mana to have untapped starts consistently, but you’ll be losing a lot of life in the process.
While Multiversal Passage is quite impressive as a new land, it’s not as powerful as the existing Shock Lands. Passage will only ever be able to tap for one color, which certainly makes it worse in 3-colored situations. More importantly, however, Multiversal Passage does not have Basic Land types in your library.
This means that Multiversal Passage cannot be Fetched for, which basically rules the card out of older formats like Modern. This card will basically see no play past Pioneer, with very few exceptions as a result. Despite this, the card should be very popular in Standard, Pioneer, and Commander.
That said, the wording on this card is very sneaky and makes it even better than it reads. Because Multiversal Passage also gains a Basic Land type, this card will unlock your Verge mana, making it a very strong fix to the two-color Standard mana problem. This also means that Multiversal Passage will unlock Check Lands, which will be uniquely legal in Alchemy on MTG Arena.
Commander demand alone should make Multiversal Passage quite an expensive card, solely because it goes in any deck that has at least two colors in it. This means that the land will be an upgrade to almost every single Commander deck out there.
An Eventual Fix
While Multiversal Passage is poised to fix the serious mana imbalance that currently plagues Standard post-rotation, we will need to wait for the card to release first. Thanks to the Spider-Man First Look coinciding with Edge of Eternities’ prerelease day, this set may feel like it’s coming soon, but in reality, we still need to wait a few months.
MTG Spider-Man doesn’t release until September 26th, 2025, meaning there are still two months before Multiversal Passage fixes anything. Until then, some two-colored MTG combinations will be very difficult to play in a competitive setting. Perhaps the only silver lining here is that, outside of some Magic Spotlight Series events, there are very few major events that will be affected. Pro Tours, for example, will not occur until Spider-Man releases.
This does, at least, confirm that unsupported two-color variants will eventually be functional. Of course, all ten Shock Lands will likely be viable at Standard at some point, but it’s impossible to know exactly when that will happen. Regardless, Multiversal Passage is a very strong MTG card that should have a lot of fans excited.