Abundant Countryside
Land
: Add 
.: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast a creature spell.
, : Create a 1/1 colorless Shapeshifter creature token with changeling. (It's every creature type.)
- CMC
- 0
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Lorwyn Eclipsed Commander
- Price
- $3.47
- EDHREC rank
- #4060
Abundant Countryside enters tapped and replaces itself immediately — you trade the tempo loss for a guaranteed card, which is an exchange almost every three-plus-color Commander deck wants to make. Ashling, the Limitless in particular runs it at a nearly 69% clip because the cycled card can hit another land, a payoff, or anything in between, keeping the engine fed.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Ashling, the Limitless
Ashling, the Limitless cares about having a full hand to pitch to her activated ability, and Abundant Countryside refills it the moment it lands — the enters-tapped downside is negligible when you're spending mana on Ashling anyway, making this an auto-include across nearly 70% of her builds.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Abundant Countryside earns its slot: singleton deckbuilding puts a premium on cantrip lands that smooth out color access without costing a card, and the tempo loss of entering tapped barely registers in a 40-life multiplayer game. In Legacy and Vintage it's technically legal but irrelevant — those formats demand untapped dual lands, and a cycling land that can't produce mana the turn it arrives is nowhere near the bar. Oathbreaker mirrors the Commander calculus closely enough that the same logic applies: if your spell-game plan doesn't punish turn-one slowdowns, Abundant Countryside is a clean inclusion.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$3.47 cheap tier
At $3.47, Abundant Countryside sits at the high end of the "cheap" tier for a utility land, though the price reflects genuine demand across hundreds of multicolor Commander builds. It's a staple purchase rather than a gamble — you'll find a home for it.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.