Canyon Jerboa
Creature — Mouse
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, creatures you control get +1/+1 until end of turn.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Zendikar Rising
- Price
- $0.09
- EDHREC rank
- #10868
Canyon Jerboa pumps your entire team whenever a land enters under your control — a passive, repeatable anthem that costs nothing beyond the initial two mana to deploy. In Mabel, Heir to Cragflame decks running aggressive Equipment lines, that trigger fires multiple times a turn and turns landfall into a combat math problem for opponents.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Mabel, Heir to Cragflame
Mabel, Heir to Cragflame is a landfall-and-Equipment commander by design, and Canyon Jerboa slots in as a free anthem every time a land enters — which in a deck built around fetchlands and ramp spells means your board grows wider and taller in the same turn you're suiting up Mabel to swing.
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 |
Canyon Jerboa is a Commander card — full stop. The landfall trigger is too slow and too incremental to compete in Modern or Legacy, where games end before you've made three land drops post-deployment. In Pioneer the card is legal but irrelevant; creature-based strategies there demand more immediate impact than a one-turn-delayed +1/+1. Commander is where Canyon Jerboa earns its slot: 100-card singleton games go long, landfall synergies are abundant, and a two-mana body that anthems repeatedly across a long game generates real equity.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.09 bulk tier
At $0.09, Canyon Jerboa is deep bulk — you're picking this out of a commons box or adding it to a five-dollar order as a throwaway inclusion. Bulk rares with narrow Commander applications don't climb without a format breakout, and nothing about Canyon Jerboa's role suggests one is coming.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.