Karplusan Forest
Land
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- CMC
- 0
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- GR
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Dominaria United Promos
- Price
- $1.97
- EDHREC rank
- #225
Karplusan Forest enters untapped and produces red or green immediately — the one-damage-per-tap rider is nearly irrelevant in a format where games end on 40 life. In five-color good-stuff shells like Ulalek, Fused Atrocity, it competes for a slot with every other Gruul dual, and it wins that competition on price and availability.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Ulalek, Fused Atrocity
Ulalek, Fused Atrocity runs a five-color pile that needs every untapped Gruul dual it can find, and Karplusan Forest delivers that on turn one without question.
Ureni of the Unwritten
Ureni of the Unwritten is a green-red value engine that wants mana available immediately to capitalize on cascade and creature triggers, making Karplusan Forest a reliable early source.
Saheeli, Radiant Creator
Saheeli, Radiant Creator needs red and green mana online fast to start copying artifacts and creatures, and Karplusan Forest supplies both colors without the tempo loss of an entering-tapped land.
Bello, Bard of the Brambles
Bello, Bard of the Brambles is a Gruul commander that punishes slow starts, so Karplusan Forest's unconditional untapped entry makes it a near-automatic inclusion.
Hearthhull, the Worldseed
Hearthhull, the Worldseed wants consistent access to both green and red from the earliest turns, and Karplusan Forest fills that role at a cost that won't strain any budget.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Karplusan Forest is a staple: untapped dual lands are scarce enough at this price point that any red-green deck should run it automatically. In Legacy and Vintage, the original dual lands and fetchlands make it redundant except in specific budget or proxy-light builds. Modern and Pioneer are the formats where it competes most directly — Stomping Ground is fetchable and painless relative to formats with lower life totals, but Karplusan Forest remains a playable budget alternative in aggressive shells that don't need to fetch it. Standard legality doesn't apply, so the real question is always Commander, and there the answer is simple: if you're in Gruul colors, Karplusan Forest belongs in the 99.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$1.97 cheap tier
At $1.97, Karplusan Forest sits comfortably in the cheap tier — accessible to any budget and rarely a meaningful investment decision. It has been reprinted enough times that supply stays high and price stays flat, so there is no urgency to buy multiple copies speculatively.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.