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Endless Sands

Land — Desert

{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}: Exile target creature you control.
{4}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Return each creature card exiled with this land to the battlefield under its owner's control.

CMC
0
Mana cost
Color identity
C
Rarity
rare
Set
Edge of Eternities: Stellar Sights
Price
$1.70
EDHREC rank
#5903
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Endless Sands card art
Endless Sands lets you exile your own creatures at instant speed and return them to the battlefield later — a repeatable flicker effect stapled to a land, so it costs you nothing in terms of spell slots. The catch is that it enters tapped and the activated abilities aren't cheap, but Hazezon, Shaper of Sand and any deck running enter-the-battlefield engines like Archaeomancer will find the value easy to justify.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Hazezon, Shaper of Sand

Hazezon, Shaper of Sand

59.5% of decks · synergy 0.57

Hazezon, Shaper of Sand generates Sand Warrior tokens whenever a Desert enters — Endless Sands is a Desert, so it contributes the moment it hits the battlefield, and its exile ability can protect Hazezon himself from targeted removal or board wipes while keeping the token engine primed for reentry.

02
Yuma, Proud Protector

Yuma, Proud Protector

27.0% of decks · synergy 0.25

Yuma, Proud Protector cares about Deserts going to the graveyard and lands entering from the graveyard, so Endless Sands fits the tribal land package naturally while also giving the deck a safety valve to blink key creatures past sweepers.

03
Otrimi, the Ever-Playful

Otrimi, the Ever-Playful

17.7% of decks · synergy 0.17

Endless Sands in Otrimi, the Ever-Playful decks is primarily a creature-protection tool — exiling a mutate stack in response to removal lets the whole pile dodge destruction and return intact, preserving the investment.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Endless Sands is a Commander card through and through — the slow, incremental value of a repeatable creature-exile effect only pays off in a long-form multiplayer game where you're flickering creatures over multiple turns. In competitive Constructed formats like Modern and Legacy it's essentially unplayable: entering tapped is disqualifying in fast metas, and the activated abilities cost too much mana to matter before the game ends. Pioneer is the same story. Oathbreaker is the one non-Commander 60-card variant where it could occasionally see a home, specifically in desert-matters builds that already want the land type, but those are niche.

Key Combos

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Price Context

Current price

$1.70 cheap tier

At $1.70, Endless Sands sits in the cheap tier — easy to pick up without budget consideration, especially for a utility land that pulls double duty in desert-matters decks. The price is stable given steady Commander demand, but don't expect movement in either direction.

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