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Blue Ramp

Every blue card in Magic that gets you more mana than one land a turn, sorted by how many tracked decks actually run it

Last computed 3 Sep 2026 · recomputed weekly
30
Blue ramp cards ranked
What it costs
Two mana or less
6
Three mana
9
Four or more
15

Mana value of the 30 blue ramp cards ranked below. Lands count as zero.

What are the best blue ramp cards in MTG?

The best blue ramp cards in MTG are the ones players actually reach for, and a handful of those measurably raise your win rate. The list below ranks every mono-blue ramp card in Magic: The Gathering by how many tracked Commander decks run it, counted from real games on Playgroup.gg. Where a card has been played enough for us to measure its effect on winning, and that effect is clearly positive, its win-rate lift is shown beside the count.

Blue ramp clusters at four or more: 15 of the 30 cards below, 50% of the list.

Deck counts are drawn from 146,944 tracked decks on Playgroup.gg.

See ramp in every color on the main list.

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The most-played mono-blue ramp cards

Ranked by the number of tracked decks running the card, not by a rating. A win-rate lift appears beside the few cards whose measured effect on winning is clearly positive.

8,433
Decks running Mana Drain
# Card Decks
1
Mana Drain
Mana Drain {U} {U} +3.5% win rate · 15,092 games with it · 1705 pilots · 685 commander groups 		8,433
2
Midnight Clock
Midnight Clock {2} {U} 		2,774
3
Sky Diamond
Sky Diamond {2} 		2,140
4
High Tide
High Tide {U} 		1,883
5
Urza, Lord High Artificer
Urza, Lord High Artificer {2} {U} {U} +0.4% win rate · 3,369 games with it · 472 pilots · 133 commander groups 		1,780
6
Uthros, Titanic Godcore
Uthros, Titanic Godcore 		1,539
7
Silver Myr
Silver Myr {2} 		1,383
8
Tezzeret the Seeker
Tezzeret the Seeker {3} {U} {U} +0.9% win rate · 2,042 games with it · 250 pilots · 94 commander groups 		1,066
9
Agent of Treachery
Agent of Treachery {5} {U} {U} 		940
10
Aminatou's Augury
Aminatou's Augury {6} {U} {U} +3.1% win rate · 1,499 games with it · 267 pilots · 82 commander groups 		936
Show 20 more blue ramp cards (ranks 11-30)
# Card Decks
11
Replication Technique
Replication Technique {4} {U} 		915
12
Crystal Skull, Isu Spyglass
Crystal Skull, Isu Spyglass {2} {U} {U} 		893
13
Mana Sculpt
Mana Sculpt {1} {U} {U} +0.3% win rate · 1,296 games with it · 248 pilots · 84 commander groups 		885
14
Prosperous Thief
Prosperous Thief {2} {U} 		815
15
Kozilek's Unsealing
Kozilek's Unsealing {2} {U} +0.4% win rate · 1,713 games with it · 263 pilots · 47 commander groups 		813
16
Astral Dragon
Astral Dragon {6} {U} {U} +0.8% win rate · 2,075 games with it · 242 pilots · 71 commander groups 		785
17
Expropriate
Expropriate {7} {U} {U} +3.3% win rate · 885 games with it · 133 pilots · 78 commander groups 		767
18
Emrakul's Messenger
Emrakul's Messenger {1} {U} 		754
19
Misleading Signpost
Misleading Signpost {2} {U} +0.4% win rate · 1,559 games with it · 214 pilots · 85 commander groups 		732
20
Ioreth of the Healing House
Ioreth of the Healing House {2} {U} 		716
21
Will of the Temur
Will of the Temur {5} {U} 		700
22
Malcolm, Keen-Eyed Navigator
Malcolm, Keen-Eyed Navigator {2} {U} 		635
23
Spell Swindle
Spell Swindle {3} {U} {U} 		607
24
Machine God's Effigy
Machine God's Effigy {4} 		576
25
Ojer Pakpatiq, Deepest Epoch // Temple of Cyclical Time
Ojer Pakpatiq, Deepest Epoch // Temple of Cyclical Time 		565
26
Kiora Bests the Sea God
Kiora Bests the Sea God {5} {U} {U} 		511
27
Vizier of Tumbling Sands
Vizier of Tumbling Sands {2} {U} 		505
28
Relm's Sketching
Relm's Sketching {2} {U} {U} 		498
29
Corsair Captain
Corsair Captain {2} {U} 		491
30
Teferi, Temporal Archmage
Teferi, Temporal Archmage {4} {U} {U} +0.2% win rate · 800 games with it · 117 pilots · 35 commander groups 		467
Other colors

Ramp in the other colors

A blue deck can also run every colorless mana rock, and most Commander decks are not mono-colored:

White ramp Black ramp Red ramp Green ramp Colorless ramp
Methodology

How this list is built

The candidate pool is every Commander-legal card carrying Scryfall's ramp oracle tag with a mono-blue color identity. That covers land ramp, mana rocks and creatures, rituals and cost reduction, minus cards whose only mana effect is to hand a land to an opponent, which are removal spells. Multicolor cards are excluded on purpose: a blue ramp card should go in any blue deck. Each card is counted across every non-archived tracked deck whose mainboard contains it, and the list is ordered by that count.

Most ramp cards do not measurably change whether you win. We compare decks that run a card against decks on the same commander that do not, pool those matched comparisons, and ask whether the difference is bigger than chance; only a handful of cards clear that bar. Ordering a list by a number whose confidence interval crosses zero for most of its rows would be ranking sampling error, so the list is ordered by deck count instead and the measurement rides alongside.

A win-rate lift appears beside a card only when it has been played enough to judge and its measured effect is clearly positive: minimums on games with the card, on separate commander groups and on distinct pilots, a cap on how much of the sample any one pilot may hold, and an interval landing entirely above zero. A card that was measured and came out flat gets an empty cell rather than a number near zero, because a number near zero reads as a verdict and this one is not.

Read that figure as a difference, not a multiplier. A +2.2% lift means a deck running the card wins 2.2 percentage points more often than decks on the same commander without it: 27.2% of its games rather than 25.0%. It is not a 2.2% relative increase, and it is not a claim that the card wins 2.2% of your games on its own.

Counts are drawn from 146,944 tracked decks on Playgroup.gg.

Read the full methodology on the main ramp page

Blue ramp FAQ

What is ramp in Magic: The Gathering?
Ramp is any card that gets you more mana than the one land you are allowed to play each turn. It covers lands that fetch other lands, artifacts that tap for mana, creatures that do the same, rituals that give you a burst of mana for a single turn, and effects that make your spells cheaper. The name comes from ramping up: spend a card early to spend more mana later. In Commander it matters more than in shorter formats, because the games are long enough for that investment to pay off several times over.
Which color has the best ramp?
Green, and it is not close. Green ramps by putting extra lands onto the battlefield, which is permanent, hard to punish and available from turn two. Cultivate, Rampant Growth and Farseek are the cards every other color gets measured against. Black ramps through rituals and sacrifice, red makes treasure tokens for one explosive turn, white taxes its opponents rather than fetching anything, and blue mostly cheats on cost instead of adding mana. Colorless mana rocks are open to every deck, which is why Sol Ring is the most-run ramp card in Commander by a wide margin.
Are mana rocks the same thing as ramp?
Mana rocks are one kind of ramp. A rock is an artifact that taps for mana, like Sol Ring or Arcane Signet, and because artifacts are colorless almost every deck can play them. That is why the colorless list here is the one every color shares. The alternative is land ramp, which puts real lands onto the battlefield instead, and it survives a board wipe that would kill your rocks.
What counts as land ramp?
Land ramp is any card that puts an extra land onto the battlefield, rather than giving you a mana ability on a spell or an artifact. Cultivate, Rampant Growth, Farseek and Three Visits are the ones people mean, and they are counted on these lists like any other ramp. They are almost all green, which is why green's list reads as sorceries where every other color reaches for artifacts. Cards that give a land to an opponent instead of you, like Path to Exile, are removal spells and are excluded.
Why are there no multicolor ramp cards on this list?
Every list here is mono-colored on purpose. A mono-blue ramp spell goes in any deck whose color identity includes blue, while a two or three color ramp spell only fits decks in those exact colors. Restricting each list to a single color identity means every card on it is playable in every deck that can cast that color, which is usually what people are asking for when they search for blue ramp.
Does blue ramp at all?
Blue ramps, but mostly by making spells cheaper rather than by adding mana. Its cost reducers and its big artifacts do the work, High Tide multiplies what your Islands already produce for one turn, and Mana Drain turns an opponent's spell into mana on your next turn, which is how blue ends up ramping on cards that were already doing something else. What blue does not get is a cheap permanent accelerant, so much of what it has is conditional: it wants a particular turn, a particular board, or a deck built around it.
Why does this list look different from other ramp lists?
Most ramp lists are one writer's ranking. This one is counted. Every card here carries Scryfall's ramp tag, ordered by how many tracked Commander decks actually run it, so the list reflects what players sleeve up rather than what an editor rates. We also measure whether each card raises a deck's win rate against decks running the same commander without it, and only the few that clearly do carry a win-rate figure.
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