Foggy Bottom Swamp
Land
This land enters tapped.
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- CMC
- 0
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BG
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Avatar: The Last Airbender
- Price
- $0.25
- EDHREC rank
- #10390
Foggy Bottom Swamp enters tapped and produces black mana — the entire on-board impact is one swamp that costs you a tempo. Avatar Aang decks that need black pips run it to hit color requirements, but it's a slot you fill only when you've exhausted better options.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Avatar Aang
Avatar Aang's color identity demands black sources, and Foggy Bottom Swamp fills that role at the lowest possible acquisition cost — it's in roughly 19% of Aang lists precisely because budget builds need the pip more than they need the land to enter untapped.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Foggy Bottom Swamp is a filler basic-adjacent land that earns its slot only when a deck is squeezed for black sources and has already run the better tapped dual options. In competitive 60-card formats — Modern, Pioneer, Legacy — it has no realistic home; any deck needing black mana has access to untapped dual lands that make a tapped basic-land variant unplayable. Pauper is the one format where budget constraints bite hardest, but even there a basic Swamp is strictly better unless the card has a meaningful non-mana text box to justify the enters-tapped penalty. Foggy Bottom Swamp is legal everywhere and playable almost nowhere outside Commander.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.25 bulk tier
At $0.25, Foggy Bottom Swamp sits firmly in bulk territory — you're paying for the cardboard, not any scarcity. Bulk land prices like this don't move; pick it up when you need the pip and don't think twice about the cost.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Avatar Aang
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.