Ferrous Lake
Land
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- CMC
- 0
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- RU
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Bloomburrow Commander
- Price
- $0.37
- EDHREC rank
- #787
Ferrous Lake enters the battlefield tapped and immediately replaces itself with a card draw, making the tempo cost nearly irrelevant in spell-heavy decks that want to chain instants and sorceries. Rootha, Mastering the Moment runs it as a near-automatic inclusion — 75% of those decks do — because the free draw fuels the copy engine without costing a card slot.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Rootha, Mastering the Moment
Rootha, Mastering the Moment copies spells for value, which means every extra card drawn off Ferrous Lake translates directly into more triggers — 75% of Rootha decks run it, the highest inclusion rate of any commander, and the synergy score backs that up.
Shiko and Narset, Unified
Shiko and Narset, Unified rewards casting noncreature spells, so Ferrous Lake's enter-the-battlefield draw slots cleanly into the same resource loop the deck is already building around.
Zinnia, Valley's Voice
Zinnia, Valley's Voice cares about maximizing spell density and hand refill, and Ferrous Lake provides both a land and a card in one package — nearly half of all Zinnia decks run it.
Liberty Prime, Recharged
Liberty Prime, Recharged leans on a consistent stream of spells to generate energy and build toward its win condition, and Ferrous Lake's free draw keeps that stream flowing without sacrificing a land drop.
Stella Lee, Wild Card
Stella Lee, Wild Card fires off instants and sorceries repeatedly to trigger her ability, and Ferrous Lake feeds that engine by ensuring the hand never runs dry after dropping a land.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Ferrous Lake is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but its real home is Commander — the singleton constraint makes card-drawing lands disproportionately valuable, and slower games give the enters-tapped penalty time to fade into irrelevance. In Legacy and Vintage, fetch-heavy manabases and the premium on untapped lands make Ferrous Lake a non-starter outside of fringe spell-chaining brews. Oathbreaker mirrors Commander's dynamics closely enough that the same spell-heavy commanders who want it there want it here too.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.37 bulk tier
At $0.37, Ferrous Lake sits firmly in bulk territory — a near-zero buy-in for a card that pulls 75% inclusion in its best deck. Bulk rares with genuine functional demand tend to stay cheap, so there's no urgency, but there's also no reason to skip it.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Rootha, Mastering the Moment
- Shiko and Narset, Unified
- Zinnia, Valley's Voice
- Liberty Prime, Recharged
- Stella Lee, Wild Card
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.