Alpine Moon
Enchantment
As this enchantment enters, choose a nonbasic land card name.
Lands your opponents control with the chosen name lose all land types and abilities, and they gain "
: Add one mana of any color."
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- The List
- Price
- $0.22
- EDHREC rank
- #23683
Alpine Moon names a nonbasic land and strips every non-mana ability off it, turning Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle into a Mountain and Dark Depths into a harmless Island for one red mana. It's the cleanest one-mana answer to problem lands in formats that have them — run it when a specific land is beating you, ignore it when it isn't.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Alpine Moon is a niche sideboard-style inclusion that earns a slot only when your meta is saturated with a specific threat — Maze of Ith taxing your attackers, Dark Depths generating a free 20/20, or Cabal Coffers generating obscene mana. Modern is where Alpine Moon has historically done the most work, acting as a cheap red answer to Tron lands and Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle out of the sideboard. In Legacy and Vintage the competition from Wasteland and Strip Mine is steep, but the one-mana cost and the non-destruction angle occasionally matter. Pioneer has enough powerful nonbasics that it sees occasional sideboard play, though dedicated hate pieces often outclass it there.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.22 bulk tier
At $0.22, Alpine Moon is deep bulk — easy to pick up as a playset without thinking twice about cost. It's unlikely to climb unless a dominant nonbasic land defines a format meta, so treat it as a cheap, disposable answer rather than a spec.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.