Loam Dweller
Creature — Spirit
Whenever you cast a Spirit or Arcane spell, you may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield tapped.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Betrayers of Kamigawa
- Price
- $0.21
- EDHREC rank
- #17144
Loam Dweller puts a land from your hand onto the battlefield tapped whenever a creature enters under your control — free mana acceleration stapled to your creature flow. The catch is the tapped clause and the requirement to have extra lands in hand, which makes it a build-around rather than a slam-in.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Loam Dweller actually has a home, specifically in landfall and creature-heavy green shells that are already flooding their hand with extra lands via Explore effects or Cultivate-style ramp. In Legacy, Modern, and Vintage it's outclassed by faster land-drop engines and sees essentially no competitive play. Oathbreaker follows the same logic as Commander — playable in the right creature-dense landfall build, irrelevant outside it.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.21 bulk tier
At $0.21, Loam Dweller is deep bulk — buy a copy for pennies and don't think twice about it. Bulk rares rarely recover value unless they find a competitive home, and this one's ceiling is casual Commander.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.