Lazotep Quarry
Land — Desert
: Add 
., Sacrifice a creature: Add one mana of any color.
, , Sacrifice a Desert: Exile target creature card with mana value X from your graveyard. Create a token that's a copy of it, except it's a 4/4 black Zombie. Activate only as a sorcery.
- CMC
- 0
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Modern Horizons 3 Commander
- Price
- $6.99
- EDHREC rank
- #1941
Lazotep Quarry enters untapped and immediately puts two 2/2 Zombie tokens on the board — real board presence stapled to a land, with zero mana investment beyond the land drop itself. Commanders like Hazezon, Shaper of Sand and Meloku the Clouded Mirror that care about land counts, token counts, or both treat this as one of the cleanest two-for-ones a land slot can offer.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Hazezon, Shaper of Sand
Hazezon, Shaper of Sand scales his Sand Warrior token output to the number of lands you control, so Lazotep Quarry does double duty — it's a land that also floods the board with two Zombies the turn it arrives, feeding both the token count and the land count simultaneously.
Omo, Queen of Vesuva
Omo, Queen of Vesuva's counters care about creature type diversity across permanents, and Lazotep Quarry delivers an immediate two-creature injection without spending a spell slot — exactly the kind of efficient token generation that keeps Omo's engine churning.
Lumra, Bellow of the Woods
Lumra, Bellow of the Woods rewards landing big land drops, and Lazotep Quarry qualifies as one while supplying two bodies that can immediately pressure opponents or absorb attacks while Lumra builds toward her payoffs.
Yuma, Proud Protector
Yuma, Proud Protector cares about lands entering and leaving play, and Lazotep Quarry's instant two-token output means that even a single sacrifice of the land later triggers additional value — the card pulls its weight on entry and on exit.
Minn, Wily Illusionist
Minn, Wily Illusionist wants a wide board of token creatures to swing with and fuel her draw engine, and Lazotep Quarry provides two bodies for free, making it a low-cost way to hit that critical mass without crowding the spell slots.
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 |
Lazotep Quarry is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but in practice it's a Commander card through and through. Legacy and Vintage run lean, efficient engines where a tapped or minimally impactful land rarely earns a slot, and the token output there is largely irrelevant. Commander is where Lazotep Quarry earns its keep: the format's singleton constraint and slower pace mean a land that generates two 2/2 bodies on arrival is genuinely powerful, especially in token, landfall, or go-wide strategies. It's not legal in Modern, Pioneer, Standard, or Pauper, which shuts it out of every 60-card competitive context anyway.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Meloku the Clouded MirrorMinn, Wily IllusionistLazotep Quarry
Infinite LTB; Infinite ETB; Infinite sacrifice triggers; Infinite death triggers; Infinite landfall triggers
View on Commander Spellbook ↗Budget Alternatives
Cheaper options that do most of the same work
If the token generation is the draw, Bojuka Bog and similar utility lands show that modal lands have a history of earning slots on effect alone — but nothing replicates Lazotep Quarry's specific two-token-plus-untapped package at a lower price point. Field of the Dead is the closest spiritual cousin for token-from-land strategies, though it requires setup and costs significantly more; for pure budget play, Khalni Garden produces one token on entry and remains a reasonable placeholder if you need the effect at pennies.
Price Context
Current price
$6.99 mid tier
At $6.99, Lazotep Quarry sits in the mid tier — meaningful enough to feel in a budget, cheap enough that it rarely needs justification in a tuned list. Given its high inclusion rates in token and landfall commanders, demand is stable, and the price reflects genuine playability rather than hype.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.