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Guildless Commons

Land

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand.
{T}: Add {C}{C}.

CMC
0
Mana cost
Color identity
C
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Commander Legends
Price
$1.71
EDHREC rank
#1231
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Guildless Commons card art
Guildless Commons enters tapped and bounces a land you control — a real cost — but that bounce is the feature in decks that want lands re-entering the battlefield repeatedly. In Kodama of the East Tree shells it triggers cascading free permanents, and Yedora, Grave Gardener turns the bounce into a recursive engine that keeps reloading your graveyard plan.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Yedora, Grave Gardener

Yedora, Grave Gardener

38.4% of decks · synergy 0.35

Yedora, Grave Gardener turns every nontoken creature death into a Forest entering the battlefield, and Guildless Commons bouncing one of those Forests back to hand resets the trigger — letting you replay lands as a value loop rather than just a one-time replacement.

02
Archelos, Lagoon Mystic

Archelos, Lagoon Mystic

18.8% of decks · synergy 0.18

Archelos, Lagoon Mystic removes the enter-tapped penalty entirely when it's untapped, which means Guildless Commons becomes a free land that also bounces another land for an additional ETB trigger — the downside disappears and the upside doubles.

03
Six

Six

21.5% of decks · synergy 0.18

Six cares about the number six and repeatedly bouncing and replaying Guildless Commons can fuel landfall or land-count-matters triggers while Six's cost-reduction effects make the tempo loss from entering tapped negligible.

04
Greensleeves, Maro-Sorcerer

Greensleeves, Maro-Sorcerer

21.8% of decks · synergy 0.18

Greensleeves, Maro-Sorcerer creates a Worm token whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, so Guildless Commons bouncing and replaying a land generates extra tokens on top of its own ETB — every bounce cycle is a free body.

05
Zhulodok, Void Gorger

Zhulodok, Void Gorger

53.7% of decks · synergy 0.17

Zhulodok, Void Gorger wants colorless seven-drop-or-higher spells to cascade twice, and Guildless Commons slots into the mana base as a cheap, accessible way to keep colorless land count high without spending budget on premium utility lands.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern not legal
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Commander is where Guildless Commons earns its slot — landfall loops, bounce synergies, and mono-color or colorless decks that don't need a dual land all make it a legitimate inclusion rather than a filler pick. In Legacy and Vintage it's legal but sees essentially no play; those formats don't want enters-tapped lands, and any engine that abuses land bouncing has faster, more powerful pieces available. Oathbreaker mirrors Commander's logic at a smaller scale, so the same landfall and ETB decks that want it there want it here too.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$1.71 cheap tier

At $1.71, Guildless Commons sits at the low end of the functional utility land tier — cheap enough to include speculatively and not painful to cut if the synergy doesn't pan out. It's a stable price for a card with a narrow but real niche; don't expect it to spike or crash.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.