Flooded Strand
Land
, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Plains or Island card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
- CMC
- 0
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- World Championship Decks 2004
- Price
- $11.37
- EDHREC rank
- #39
Flooded Strand is a fetch land — it enters tapped, you pay 1 life, crack it for an untapped Island or Plains, and your mana is better for the rest of the game. It's among the most-played cards in Commander for a reason, and the only real trade-off is color identity: it does nothing in a deck like Rograkh, Son of Rohgahh // Silas Renn, Seeker Adept that never touches white or blue.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | banned |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Flooded Strand is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, and Oathbreaker — banned in Pioneer, where its combination of consistency and graveyard synergy pushed it out. The Pioneer ban is the one flag worth noting, but Commander gives it a full pass: the 100-card singleton format rewards consistency tools more than any other, and the life payment is negligible when you start at 40. The graveyard-filling upside that worried Pioneer regulators is a feature here, not a bug, feeding delve, escape, and reanimator strategies at zero extra cost.
Where It Shines
Where the extra mana on turn one matters most
Big-mana shells like Vivi Ornitier
Vivi Ornitier runs artifact rocks on turn one and needs its mana clean — Flooded Strand fetches the untapped blue or white source that lets those rocks come down on curve without a hitch.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$11.37 mid tier
At $11.37, Flooded Strand sits in the mid tier — not a budget include, but far from the most expensive land in a competitive list. It has been reprinted enough to stay accessible, and at this price it's one of the higher-impact $10–$15 purchases you can make if your deck is in white, blue, or both.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Rograkh, Son of Rohgahh // Silas Renn, Seeker Adept
- Vivi Ornitier
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.