Fabled Passage
Land
, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. Then if you control four or more lands, untap that land.
- CMC
- 0
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Core Set 2021
- Price
- $3.65
- EDHREC rank
- #55
Fabled Passage enters tapped but fetches any basic land type and puts it into play untapped once you control four or more lands — that's a mana smoother and a land-drop trigger in one card. Rootpath Purifier makes every basic a Forest, Island, Mountain, Plains, and Swamp simultaneously, which means Passage can find literally any color fixing regardless of what basic you're short on; Quintorius, History Chaser turns the Passage's self-sacrifice into a free damage ping and a counter, making the spell-from-graveyard payoff engine click from turn one.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Quintorius, History Chaser
Quintorius, History Chaser triggers whenever a spell is cast from the graveyard, and Fabled Passage's sacrifice-to-fetch sequence puts a card directly into the graveyard while also advancing the board — every Passage activation is a free trigger toward Quintorius's damage and counter output.
Rootha, Mastering the Moment
Rootha, Mastering the Moment cares about casting and copying instants and sorceries, but the deck's real need is reliable two- and three-color fixing on a budget, and Fabled Passage delivers that while also entering the graveyard for any incidental recursion packages the shell runs.
Leonardo, the Balance // Michelangelo, the Heart
Leonardo, the Balance // Michelangelo, the Heart is a four-color commander that demands clean mana, and Fabled Passage handles the fixing work at minimal cost — finding whichever basic type the hand is missing while keeping the land count honest.
Hearthhull, the Worldseed
Hearthhull, the Worldseed's landfall-adjacent triggers reward every land entering the battlefield, and Fabled Passage delivers two events — the Passage itself entering, then the fetched basic entering — in a single activation, doubling the trigger count for one card slot.
Killian, Decisive Mentor
Killian, Decisive Mentor wants consistent white and black mana by turn two or three, and Fabled Passage is the cheapest reliable source of either basic type that doesn't ask you to run a tapland in its place.
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 |
Fabled Passage is legal across every major format except Pauper, and its role shifts meaningfully depending on the context. In Commander it's a budget staple — four or more lands in play arrives by turn two or three in most games, so the untapped basic comes online exactly when you need it, and decks with landfall, graveyard, or sacrifice synergies treat it as an extra payoff. In Pioneer it competes with Evolving Wilds for the budget fixing slot and wins cleanly, since the untapped clause matters in a format with a real curve. In Modern and Legacy the bar is fetch lands that find duals, so Fabled Passage slots in only where budget demands it or where basics are specifically wanted. Standard is the format where it has historically shown the most constructed relevance, regularly anchoring two- and three-color mana bases when it was in rotation.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Rootpath PurifierWheel of Sun and MoonFabled Passage
Infinite landfall triggers
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Toggo, Goblin WeaponsmithScaretillerClock of OmensFabled PassageAmulet of Vigor
Infinite landfall triggers; Infinite tapped Rock tokens; Put all basic lands from your library onto the battlefield
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Ashaya, Soul of the WildStone-Seeder HierophantScaretillerFabled Passage
Near-infinite landfall triggers; Near-infinite mana lands you control can produce; Put all basic lands from your library onto the battlefield
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Current price
$3.65 cheap tier
At $3.65, Fabled Passage sits in the cheap tier — accessible enough that there's no reason to skip it in any multicolor Commander deck that wants basic-land fixing. It has been reprinted enough times to keep the price grounded, so the current number reflects a stable floor rather than a spike waiting to correct.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Rootpath Purifier
- Quintorius, History Chaser
- Rootha, Mastering the Moment
- Leonardo, the Balance // Michelangelo, the Heart
- Hearthhull, the Worldseed
- Killian, Decisive Mentor
- Wheel of Sun and Moon
- Toggo, Goblin Weaponsmith
- Scaretiller
- Clock of Omens
- Amulet of Vigor
- Ashaya, Soul of the Wild
- Stone-Seeder Hierophant
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.