Environmental Scientist
Creature — Human Druid
When this creature enters, you may search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Secrets of Strixhaven
- Price
- $0.16
- EDHREC rank
- #21377
Environmental Scientist enters the battlefield and fetches any basic land to hand — immediate tempo on a 2/1 body for two mana. It's not flashy, but the guaranteed land drop makes it a reliable early play in any deck that wants to hit its third land on time.
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 |
In Commander, Environmental Scientist fills the same slot as other two-mana creatures that replace themselves with a land — reliable, unremarkable, and easy to include when you need one more piece of ramp. It scales worst in five-color decks where basic-land fetching is weakest, and best in mono-color or two-color builds that can actually use the specific basic it grabs. In constructed formats like Modern and Pioneer, a 2/1 that only finds basics without putting it onto the battlefield is simply too slow to compete with Elvish Mystic or fetchlands. Environmental Scientist is a Commander card through and through.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.16 bulk tier
At $0.16, Environmental Scientist is deep bulk — you'll find it in common boxes or throw-in binders without looking hard. Bulk creatures that do nothing exceptional rarely climb in price, so treat it as a filler inclusion you grab for free, not a pickup to prioritize.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.