Hollow Trees
Land
This land enters tapped.
You may choose not to untap this land during your untap step.
At the beginning of your upkeep, if this land is tapped, put a storage counter on it.
, Remove any number of storage counters from this land: Add 
for each storage counter removed this way.
- CMC
- 0
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Fifth Edition
- Price
- $0.94
- EDHREC rank
- #18371
Hollow Trees enters tapped and produces one colorless mana — a land that does nothing the turn you play it and offers no upside beyond that baseline. Unless a specific deck is deliberately assembling a Forest count for synergy payoffs, this is a strict downgrade from any basic Forest.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Hollow Trees is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but legality and playability are different things. In Commander, the only reason to run Hollow Trees over a basic Forest is if you're stacking Forest-count payoffs — think Sasaya, Orochi Ascendant or similar density-matters builds — and even then, basic Forests are almost always better since they're fetchable. Legacy and Vintage have no use for it; those formats demand lands that generate immediate value or don't enter tapped at all. Hollow Trees is a niche card for a niche deck, full stop.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.94 bulk tier
At $0.94, Hollow Trees sits at the top end of bulk pricing, which overstates its utility — basic Forests are free and strictly better in nearly every context. The price reflects casual demand and scarcity from an older print run more than any real competitive pull.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.