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Jungle Basin

Land

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, sacrifice it unless you return an untapped Forest you control to its owner's hand.
{T}: Add {C}{G}.

CMC
0
Mana cost
Color identity
G
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Visions
Price
$0.59
EDHREC rank
#5779
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Jungle Basin card art
Jungle Basin taps for two green mana on the turn it enters — then immediately bounces itself to your hand, costing you your land drop and leaving you with nothing permanent on the battlefield. That enters-tapped-and-returns-itself text is a liability everywhere except the handful of engines, like Argothian Elder or Yedora, Grave Gardener, that turn the bounce into a feature.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Yedora, Grave Gardener

Yedora, Grave Gardener

44.0% of decks · synergy 0.40

Yedora, Grave Gardener turns every nontoken creature death into a Forest entering the battlefield, and Jungle Basin's self-bounce means that Forest can immediately become another trigger — looping the land through the graveyard repeatedly to generate value or enable infinite-land combos with the right pieces.

02
Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait

Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait

28.4% of decks · synergy 0.26

Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait draws a card and grants an extra land drop whenever any land enters under your control, so Jungle Basin's bounce loop turns into a repeatable draw engine as long as you have the mana and land drops to keep replaying it.

03
Freyalise, Llanowar's Fury

Freyalise, Llanowar's Fury

12.1% of decks · synergy 0.09

Freyalise, Llanowar's Fury leans on green mana elves and land-based ramp, and Jungle Basin fits as a redundant bounce-land that feeds landfall synergies — though at 12% inclusion it's a fringe pick rather than a staple in the 99.

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

Jungle Basin sees essentially zero Vintage or Legacy play — those formats move too fast for a land that enters tapped, produces no permanent mana, and bounces itself. Commander is where it lives, and only in specific shells: landfall decks that want repeated triggers, or combo decks that need a self-bouncing Forest to close a loop. Outside those niches, Jungle Basin is a worse dual than almost any alternative in the format. Oathbreaker is similarly niche — the same combo and landfall angles apply, but the smaller deck size makes the opportunity cost of a dead land drop even steeper.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.59 bulk tier

At $0.59, Jungle Basin is firmly bulk — you're paying for a narrow role-player, not a staple. The price is stable because demand is limited to the specific combo and landfall decks that need it, so don't expect movement in either direction.

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