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Living Lands

Enchantment

All Forests are 1/1 creatures that are still lands.

CMC
4
Mana cost
{3}{G}
Color identity
G
Rarity
rare
Set
Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border
Price
—
EDHREC rank
#16397
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Living Lands card art
Living Lands turns every Forest you control into a 1/1 creature, which sounds modest until you pair it with Yedora, Grave Gardener — at that point every nontoken creature you lose returns to the battlefield as a Forest, which Living Lands immediately animates back into a creature. The setup costs four mana and one card slot, and what you get is a recursive engine that laughs at board wipes.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

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Yedora, Grave Gardener

Yedora, Grave Gardener

52.3% of decks · synergy 0.52

Yedora, Grave Gardener turns creature deaths into Forest ETBs, and Living Lands turns those Forests back into creatures — the two cards form a closed loop that makes removal spells actively counterproductive for your opponents.

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

Living Lands is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker — and Commander is the only format where it genuinely matters. Legacy and Vintage have no interest in a four-mana enchantment that animates Forests; the tempo cost is disqualifying against the threats those formats operate on. In Commander, Living Lands earns its slot almost exclusively in Yedora, Grave Gardener builds, where the creature-to-land-to-creature loop is a central game plan rather than a novelty. Outside of that specific shell, it remains a narrow card — animating lands is a fragile strategy that collapses to a single Wrath unless you have recursive density to back it up.

Key Combos

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Price Context

Current price

unknown tier

Pricing data for Living Lands isn't currently available, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for the latest. Given its narrow Commander application and old-border collector appeal, expect the price to track demand from Yedora, Grave Gardener players more than any broad market interest.

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