Boundless Realms
Sorcery
Search your library for up to X basic land cards, where X is the number of lands you control, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
- CMC
- 7
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Magic 2013
- Price
- $4.19
- EDHREC rank
- #5854
Boundless Realms puts every basic land from your library onto the battlefield tapped — in a land-matters deck, that's often a ten-land swing in a single turn. The seven-mana cost is real, but Rootpath Purifier turns every land you run into a basic, and Omnath, Locus of Rage turns every one of those entering lands into a 5/5 elemental and a lightning bolt.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Omnath, Locus of Rage
Omnath, Locus of Rage converts each land entering the battlefield into a 5/5 elemental token and deals 3 damage when any of them die, so a single Boundless Realms resolving with ten basics in the deck is effectively a lethal board state built from one card.
Phylath, World Sculptor
Phylath, World Sculptor creates a plant token for each basic land you control at the end of the turn it enters, which means Boundless Realms resolving mid-to-late game can flood the board with a dozen or more 0/1 plants that immediately start stacking +1/+1 counters.
Greensleeves, Maro-Sorcerer
Greensleeves, Maro-Sorcerer makes a 3/3 badger token each time a land enters under your control, so Boundless Realms landing eight basics in one shot produces eight 3/3s alongside a commander who scales in size with every land you now control.
Ashaya, Soul of the Wild
Ashaya, Soul of the Wild makes your creatures count as Forests, so Boundless Realms inflates Ashaya's own power and toughness in addition to ramping — a full grip of basics entering the battlefield can push Ashaya into the 20/20 range on the spot.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Boundless Realms earns its keep — the format's 100-card singleton construction means decks routinely run 36-plus lands, and a mid-game casting can easily fetch eight to twelve basics in one shot. In Legacy and Vintage, the card is technically legal but sees zero play; those formats don't tolerate seven-mana sorceries that don't end the game on the stack. Oathbreaker is the only other format where Boundless Realms is plausible, specifically in green land-matters shells that can assemble enough ramp to cast it before the game ends.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$4.19 cheap tier
At $4.19, Boundless Realms sits at the high end of cheap — it's a single-printing mythic with a devoted audience in land-matters Commander builds, and that floor is unlikely to drop further. It's not a bulk rare you can ignore; budget it in when you're building Omnath or Phylath, and grab it rather than waiting.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.