Illusionary Terrain
Enchantment
Cumulative upkeep 
(At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this permanent, then sacrifice it unless you pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.)
As this enchantment enters, choose two basic land types.
Basic lands of the first chosen type are the second chosen type.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Ice Age
- Price
- $0.33
- EDHREC rank
- #24775
Illusionary Terrain converts all lands of one basic type into a different basic type for as long as you keep paying two blue mana per upkeep — a cumulative effect that can strand opponents on dead mana if they can't answer it. The ongoing tax makes it unsustainable in most games, and any land destruction or enchantment removal collapses the whole investment.
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 |
Illusionary Terrain is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but sees essentially no competitive play in any of them. In Commander, mana bases are already diversified with nonbasics, so converting a basic type often hits only a handful of lands and rarely locks anyone out — four-player tables also mean three opponents can simply ignore it while one answers it. Legacy and Vintage have access to far more efficient disruption and don't need a slow, upkeep-taxed enchantment to distort mana. It's a curiosity from an era before nonbasic lands dominated, and that context is the only reason to seek it out.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.33 bulk tier
At $0.33, Illusionary Terrain sits firmly in bulk territory — cheap enough to pick up on a whim, and priced exactly where its demand warrants. There's no competitive pressure pushing the price up, so it's unlikely to appreciate unless a niche combo or reprint creates sudden interest.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.