Boundary Lands Ranger
Creature — Human Ranger
At the beginning of combat on your turn, if you control a creature with power 4 or greater, you may discard a card. If you do, draw a card.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Wilds of Eldraine
- Price
- $0.12
- EDHREC rank
- #16897
Boundary Lands Ranger puts a land directly onto the battlefield and replaces itself with a card draw — that's a two-for-one stapled to a body. The cost is a five-mana 3/4 with no evasion, which is slow enough that commanders like The Locust God, who can flood the board with tokens, need more explosive ramp than this provides.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Boundary Lands Ranger is a Commander card through and through — the format's slower clock and singleton construction make a five-mana body that fetches a land and replaces itself genuinely playable in landfall and ramp shells. In competitive 60-card formats like Modern and Pioneer, five mana for a non-impactful creature body is simply too slow when dedicated ramp spells accomplish the same at a fraction of the cost. Legacy and Vintage make that gap even wider. Standard is the one exception where a card like this could see fringe play during lean periods in a set rotation, but it competes against pushed alternatives and rarely earns a slot.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
The Locust GodBoundary Lands RangerBreath of Fury
Infinite draw triggers; Infinite rummaging; Infinite self-discard triggers; Near-infinite combat damage; Near-infinite combat phases; Near-infinite death triggers; Near-infinite ETB; Near-infinite LTB; Near-infinite sacrifice triggers
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Current price
$0.12 bulk tier
At $0.12, Boundary Lands Ranger is deep bulk — you're picking it out of a dollar box, not tracking it on a buylist. Bulk rares with niche landfall synergy rarely climb unless a new commander warps demand around them, so treat it as a low-stakes include rather than a hold.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.