MTG · Card

◇ Catalog #23

Open the Way

mat·#23·rare·nonfoil

Illus. Livia Prima

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in vault

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for trade

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wishlisted

May '23

3 yr ago

Value

$4.53+$0 (+4.2%)

30 days high $3.65 · low $3.33

NM$3.53

LP—

MP—

HP—

DMG—

$3.26–$3.73modeled

30 days ago
today

90-dayhigh $4.15low $0.02range 20650.0%n 45

Where to buy / sell

TCGplayer eBay sold Cardmarket EU Star City

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Played in EDH

EDHrec rank #1,661 · Common include

Variants

Foil$4.45

Nonfoil$3.53

Gameplay

Sorcery

X can't be greater than the number of players in the game. Reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal X land cards. Put those land cards onto the battlefield tapped and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Legalities

tlrlegal

duellegal

brawllegal

pennylegal

PreDH

Rulings · 1

2023-05-12wotc

The number of players in the game is checked only as you choose the value for X. Once you've cast Open the Way, players leaving the game in response to the spell won't affect the number of land cards you'll find.

Context

Last observed on Scryfall 2 months ago at $3.53. Over the trailing 90 days the price moved between $0.02 and $4.15 across 45 observations. Cross-checked across TCGplayer, eBay sold, Cardmarket EU, and Star City.

This printing is one of 3 catalogued treatments from MAT — the lineup includes Foil and Nonfoil alongside the standard finish. Across our catalog the Rarix library tracks every variant in the same family so collectors can compare price, scarcity and demand inside a single lineage.

Card #23 of *March of the Machine: The Aftermath*, the set that shipped alongside the May 2023 March of the Machine: The Aftermath release.

Card type: Sorcery, color identity green, printed at rare. Rares occupy the bottom-of-pack rare slot in standard boosters. Mana cost: {X}{G}{G} (2 converted).

Legal across the major constructed formats — Modern, Legacy, Vintage, and Commander — plus Standard rotation play.

EDHrec ranks this card #1,661 in Commander, putting it in the common-include tier of the format's playable pool.

Illustrated by Livia Prima. Rarix catalogs 239 other cards credited to this artist.