Foreboding Landscape
Land
: Add 
., Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic Swamp, Forest, or Island card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Cycling 
(, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
- CMC
- 0
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BGU
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander
- Price
- $0.21
- EDHREC rank
- #1653
Foreboding Landscape enters tapped, sacrifices to draw a card, and puts two basic lands into play tapped — a clean two-for-one land that replaces itself while advancing your mana. The cost is real: three turns of tempo lost between an enters-tapped trigger, a tap to activate, and two more tapped basics. In Teval, the Balanced Scale decks, that trade is worth every turn.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Teval, the Balanced Scale
Teval, the Balanced Scale cares about lands entering the battlefield, and Foreboding Landscape delivers two at once when it cracks — triggering any landfall payoff twice while cantripping to keep your hand stocked.
Sin, Spira's Punishment
Sin, Spira's Punishment runs big mana and self-mill strategies where Foreboding Landscape does double duty: the two basics it fetches hit the board simultaneously, and the card draw offsets the tempo cost in a deck that wants to fuel the graveyard anyway.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Foreboding Landscape earns its slot, specifically in landfall and land-matters decks that want density of enters-the-battlefield triggers over raw speed. In Legacy, Vintage, and Modern, it's legal but irrelevant — any shell that wants a land-fetch effect has access to fetchlands that don't enter tapped and don't cost you three tempo hits. Pauper is the one non-Commander format where it's worth a look: budget landfall builds at common rarity have limited access to multi-land fetch effects, and the card-draw stapled on is meaningful when your options are thin.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.21 bulk tier
At $0.21, Foreboding Landscape is bulk — grab a playset for under a dollar with shipping. Bulk utility lands at common-adjacent price points rarely climb unless a new commander breaks the effect wide open, so treat it as a stable pickup rather than a spec.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Teval, the Balanced Scale
- Sin, Spira's Punishment
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.