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Cartographer

Creature — Human

When this creature enters, you may return target land card from your graveyard to your hand.

CMC
3
Mana cost
{2}{G}
Color identity
G
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Exodus
Price
$0.24
EDHREC rank
#24740
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Cartographer card art
Cartographer returns a basic land from your graveyard to your hand every time it enters the battlefield — repeatable land recursion stapled to a 1/1 body for two mana. The ceiling is infinite ETB loops with Escape Protocol; the floor is a niche budget piece that most decks handle better with Eternal Witness or Nyx Weaver.

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 legal
oathbreaker legal

Cartographer is a Commander card first and nearly exclusively. The ETB trigger is cheap enough to recur repeatedly in blink or bounce shells, and the graveyard-to-hand land loop patches mana bases that keep getting Strip Mined or Wasteland'd. In Pauper it's legal but outclassed by Diligent Farmhand and similar commons that put the land directly onto the battlefield. Legacy and Vintage don't want a two-mana 1/1 for incremental land recursion when faster, more impactful options exist at every slot.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.24 bulk tier

At $0.24, Cartographer is deep bulk — grab it out of a commons box and don't think twice about the price. It's not a card that spikes; demand stays narrow enough that $0.24 is likely its ceiling as much as its floor.

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