Botanical Plaza
Land
This land enters tapped.
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- CMC
- 0
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- GW
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Streets of New Capenna
- Price
- $0.26
- EDHREC rank
- #6729
Botanical Plaza enters tapped, which is the tax you pay for a dual land at bulk price — that cost is real and it matters in faster formats. In Commander, where the game starts slower and fixing matters more than speed, it's a perfectly serviceable Simic dual that does its job without drama.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Botanical Plaza is a fine budget inclusion for any Simic or multicolor deck that needs green-blue fixing and isn't running a tuned mana base — the enters-tapped penalty is largely forgiven in a 40-life, slower-paced format. In Pauper, it's legal and sees play in tempo and control shells that need fixing at common rarity, though the tapped drawback is more punishing there. Modern and Pioneer have better options at every price point, so Botanical Plaza rarely shows up in those 60-card formats outside of the strictest budget builds. Legacy and Vintage have no use for it — those formats demand untapped lands or lands that do something powerful, and this does neither.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.26 bulk tier
At $0.26, Botanical Plaza is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard and shipping more than the card itself. It won't gain value, but it doesn't need to; it's a disposable fixing piece you slot in until you upgrade to something better.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.