Gruul Turf
Land
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand.
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- CMC
- 0
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- GR
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Forgotten Realms Commander
- Price
- $0.31
- EDHREC rank
- #411
Gruul Turf enters tapped and bounces a land back to your hand — a real cost — but that bounce is exactly what landfall commanders like Obuun, Mul Daya Ancestor and Kodama of the East Tree want, turning a tempo loss into a repeatable trigger engine. Run it when your deck rewards replaying lands; ignore it when it doesn't.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Obuun, Mul Daya Ancestor
Obuun, Mul Daya Ancestor cares about land drops firing repeatedly, and Gruul Turf's bounce lets you replay the returned land for a second landfall trigger on the same turn.
Averna, the Chaos Bloom
Averna, the Chaos Bloom cascades lands directly onto the battlefield, and Gruul Turf slots in as a free landfall trigger whenever a cascade chain hits it — two mana in one land drop.
Omnath, Locus of the Roil
Omnath, Locus of the Roil pings and grows on every landfall, so Gruul Turf's bounce-and-replay loop translates directly into extra damage and counters each turn.
Kaust, Eyes of the Glade
Kaust, Eyes of the Glade rewards stacking landfall triggers, and Gruul Turf provides a consistent, repeatable way to manufacture two triggers from a single land in hand.
Lord Windgrace
Lord Windgrace recurs lands from the graveyard for value, and Gruul Turf feeds that engine by bouncing a land back to hand where it can be discarded to his minus ability and recovered again.
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 |
Gruul Turf is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker — and Commander is overwhelmingly where it earns its slot, appearing in over 100,000 registered decks as a landfall enabler. In Pauper it's a legitimate mana fixer for Gruul aggro or ramp lists that can't afford better duals, and the tempo loss of entering tapped matters less in a format with a slower average clock. In Legacy and Vintage the competition from untapped dual lands and fetchlands is so steep that Gruul Turf never sees play. Modern's land-based synergy decks exist, but again the format offers strictly better options, so this is a Commander card dressed in broad-format legality.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Kodama of the East TreeGruul TurfRampaging Baloths
Infinite creature tokens; Infinite ETB; Infinite landfall triggers
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Kodama of the East TreeTireless ProvisionerGruul Turf
Infinite colored mana; Infinite Food tokens; Infinite landfall triggers; Infinite lifegain; Infinite lifegain triggers; Infinite Treasure tokens
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Kodama of the East TreeGruul TurfScute Swarm
Infinite creature tokens; Infinite landfall triggers; Infinite ETB
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Kodama of the East TreeGruul TurfOmnath, Locus of Rage
Infinite creature tokens; Infinite ETB; Infinite landfall triggers
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Kodama of the East TreeTireless TrackerGruul Turf
Infinite Clue tokens; Infinite landfall triggers
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Current price
$0.31 bulk tier
At $0.31, Gruul Turf is deep bulk — a pickup you grab in a $1 pile without thinking twice. Bounce lands have never spiked and aren't going to; the price is stable at the floor, so buy however many you need without concern.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.