Halimar Depths
Land
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, look at the top three cards of your library, then put them back in any order.
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- CMC
- 0
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Worldwake
- Price
- $0.57
- EDHREC rank
- #1258
Halimar Depths enters tapped, which is the whole cost — in exchange, you arrange the top three cards of your library, a effect that compounds every time you draw, scry, or reset the top of your deck. In commanders like Aminatou, Veil Piercer that repeatedly manipulate the top of the library, that one-turn tempo loss pays back immediately.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Aminatou, Veil Piercer
Aminatou, Veil Piercer's game plan is built around knowing and controlling what's on top of the library, and Halimar Depths provides a free three-card stack on the turn it enters — exactly the kind of setup Aminatou wants before she starts flickering and reordering.
Kenessos, Priest of Thassa
Kenessos, Priest of Thassa cheats creatures directly off the top of the library, so the ability to guarantee a Kraken or Leviathan sits on top is as close to a free cast as a land gets — Halimar Depths is doing real work before you even untap.
Marvo, Deep Operative
Marvo, Deep Operative cares about the top card of your library on a nearly continuous basis, and Halimar Depths lets you pre-load the top three so Marvo's reveals are never wasted on a land or an irrelevant spell.
Runo Stromkirk
Runo Stromkirk needs to flip a creature with mana value six or greater off the top at upkeep, and Halimar Depths lets you stack that creature into position the turn before — it's the cheapest tutor-adjacent effect available in the color pair.
Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign
Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign casts the top card of your library for free if it has odd mana value, so stacking an odd-cost haymaker on top with Halimar Depths converts what could be a blank into a free spell.
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 |
In Commander, Halimar Depths earns its slot in any deck that values top-of-library control — it's a land that replaces itself with information and sequencing, and the enters-tapped drawback is largely irrelevant outside the fastest tables. In Pauper, it sees genuine play in control and tempo shells that need cheap card selection without spending a spell slot. Legacy and Vintage have access to strictly more powerful cantrips and fetch lands, so Halimar Depths rarely competes there except in budget builds or narrow synergy contexts. It's not legal in Pioneer or Standard, but that's no loss — the formats move too fast for an enters-tapped land to pull its weight anyway.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.57 bulk tier
At $0.57, Halimar Depths sits firmly in bulk territory and has for years — supply is high and demand is spread across too many formats to push the price up. Grab as many copies as you need without hesitation; there's no version of this card that costs more.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.