Lost in the Woods
Enchantment
Whenever a creature attacks you or a planeswalker you control, reveal the top card of your library. If it's a Forest card, remove that creature from combat. Then put the revealed card on the bottom of your library.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Dark Ascension
- Price
- $0.32
- EDHREC rank
- #20062
Lost in the Woods turns any attacking creature into a coin flip that gets worse the more forests you run — in a dedicated Forests deck, it answers every swinging threat for free, turn after turn. The cost is total: it does nothing without a heavy Forest base, and it doesn't stop abilities, flying, or anything that doesn't attack.
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 |
Lost in the Woods is a Commander card — full stop. The format's 100-card singleton structure rewards dedicated Forest-tribal builds where the reveal hits more often than not, and the multiplayer table means blanket attack-deterrence against three opponents is worth an enchantment slot. In Legacy and Vintage it's legal but irrelevant; no competitive deck runs enough basic Forests to make the reveal consistent, and five mana does nothing useful at those speeds. Modern is the same story — the format's mana bases are too fetch-and-shock heavy for Lost in the Woods to function, and five-mana do-nothings don't survive the format's interaction density.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.32 bulk tier
At $0.32, Lost in the Woods is pure bulk — you're paying almost nothing for a card with a real, if narrow, role in the right Commander shell. Bulk enchantments with niche applications don't tend to climb unless a new commander pushes the archetype into the spotlight, so treat this as a cheap pick-up for your Yedora or Sasaya build rather than a hold.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.