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Balduvian Trading Post

Land

If this land would enter, sacrifice an untapped Mountain instead. If you do, put this land onto the battlefield. If you don't, put it into its owner's graveyard.
{T}: Add {C}{R}.
{1}, {T}: This land deals 1 damage to target attacking creature.

CMC
0
Mana cost
Color identity
R
Rarity
rare
Set
Masters Edition II
Price
—
EDHREC rank
#17737
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Balduvian Trading Post card art
Balduvian Trading Post enters tapped and asks you to sacrifice a Plains just to tap for one colorless mana — a brutal entry cost that almost never pays off. The only reason to run it is in a deck built around untap effects like Frantic Search, where the damage output becomes a repeatable resource rather than a curiosity.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern not legal
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Balduvian Trading Post is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but sees virtually no competitive play in any of them. In Legacy and Vintage, the land slot is too precious to spend on something that demands a Plains sacrifice and enters tapped; better mana sources exist at every point on the curve. In Commander, it occupies a niche in specific combo or damage-ping builds, but even there it competes with strictly more efficient options and requires meaningful deck construction concessions to justify.

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Price Context

Current price

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Pricing data for Balduvian Trading Post isn't available in this snapshot, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for current market rate. Given its narrow application and low demand, it has historically been an inexpensive pick-up — don't overpay.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.