Lumbering Falls
Land
This land enters tapped.
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: Until end of turn, this land becomes a 3/3 green and blue Elemental creature with hexproof. It's still a land.
- CMC
- 0
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- GU
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Battle for Zendikar Promos
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #4334
Lumbering Falls gives you a 3/3 hexproof creature on demand from your land slot — the cost is that it enters tapped and animating it costs three mana each time. In decks led by Jyoti, Moag Ancient, where every Forest-typed land is a resource, that built-in creature mode does real work without spending a card.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Jyoti, Moag Ancient
Jyoti, Moag Ancient cares about Forests specifically, and Lumbering Falls is a Forest that can become a creature — meaning it pulls double duty as both a land-drop trigger and a body that's nearly impossible to remove with targeted removal while animated.
Jolrael, Voice of Zhalfir
Jolrael, Voice of Zhalfir rewards you for drawing cards each turn with a creature token, but Lumbering Falls gives her decks a threat that dodges sorcery-speed removal and never costs a card slot, making it a clean fit in a strategy that wants resilient, low-overhead bodies.
Omo, Queen of Vesuva
Omo, Queen of Vesuva puts land subtypes to work, and Lumbering Falls qualifies as a Forest — so Omo can spread that subtype designation further while the Falls itself remains a relevant threat when the board demands it.
Galea, Kindler of Hope
Galea, Kindler of Hope wants creatures to suit up with Auras and Equipment, and Lumbering Falls' animated form is hexproof, making it one of the safest targets in the deck for expensive enchantments that would otherwise beg to get two-for-one'd.
Adrix and Nev, Twincasters
Adrix and Nev, Twincasters is a token-doubling engine, and while Lumbering Falls doesn't produce tokens itself, it slots into the Simic land base as a creature that survives board wipes in land form — giving the deck a resilient threat that opponents can't sweep away alongside the token army.
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, Lumbering Falls earns its slot in any Simic deck that wants creature-lands — the hexproof clause is genuinely premium in a format full of targeted removal, and the Forest subtype pushes it ahead of comparable options in commanders like Jyoti, Moag Ancient. In Modern and Pioneer, creature-lands have historically been role-players in midrange and control strategies that need threats which survive wraths, though Lumbering Falls has largely been outpaced by faster options in competitive metas. Legacy and Vintage have the tools to make the three-mana activation prohibitively slow, so it rarely sees play there outside of highly specific land-synergy shells. Standard legality has lapsed, so that's a non-conversation.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
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Pricing data for Lumbering Falls isn't currently available in our system, so check Scryfall or your preferred retailer for the latest. As a non-foil bulk rare from a widely opened set, it has historically been cheap enough to pick up without hesitation.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.