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Karoo

Land

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

CMC
0
Mana cost
Color identity
W
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Visions
Price
$1.50
EDHREC rank
#5394
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Karoo card art
Karoo enters tapped and bounces a land back to your hand, which is a real cost — but that returned land resets any enters-the-battlefield trigger on it, and Karoo itself taps for two white mana, making it a mana-positive play the turn after it lands. Pair it with Retreat to Emeria and the bounce loop becomes a token engine.

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

Karoo is a Commander card through and through — the tempo loss of entering tapped barely registers in a 40-life, slower-paced format, and the enters-the-battlefield abuse potential with bounce synergies is at its ceiling in a singleton environment full of plains-heavy white builds. Legacy and Vintage technically allow it, but no competitive list there wants a tapped land that telegraphs a bounce loop. Karoo is exactly as powerful as your deck's density of landfall and ETB payoffs.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$1.50 cheap tier

At $1.50, Karoo sits at the low end of niche utility lands — cheap enough to slot in speculatively, and the combo applications keep steady demand from white landfall and ETB decks. It's not going to spike, but it's not losing value either.

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