Lush Oasis
Land — Desert
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, it deals 1 damage to target opponent.
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- CMC
- 0
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- GU
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Modern Horizons 3 Commander
- Price
- $0.28
- EDHREC rank
- #4384
Lush Oasis enters tapped and taps for one mana of any color — a reasonable deal in a three-color deck, a liability in anything faster. The demand comes almost entirely from Omo, Queen of Vesuva, where putting a counter on a land the turn it enters is worth more than the tempo loss.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Omo, Queen of Vesuva
Omo, Queen of Vesuva places counters on permanents to change their types, and Lush Oasis enters with a counter already on it — meaning it immediately qualifies as whatever type Omo's engine needs without spending an activation.
Bonny Pall, Clearcutter
Bonny Pall, Clearcutter cares about Forests, and Lush Oasis's Forest subtype lets it slot in as both a color-fixer and a Forest-count contributor without requiring a basic Forest slot.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Lush Oasis is legal across every major format but sees meaningful play in exactly one: Commander. In competitive 60-card formats — Modern, Pioneer, Legacy — an enters-tapped triome-style land that produces only one color of mana is simply too slow; dual lands and fetchlands set the baseline too high. Pauper is where it theoretically has a home on paper, but even there the format's aggressive and tempo-sensitive decks prefer untapped sources. In Commander, the enters-tapped cost is far more tolerable, and the Forest subtype combined with any-color production earns it a slot in counter-matters decks and Forests-matter builds specifically.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.28 bulk tier
At $0.28, Lush Oasis is bulk — easy to pick up as a throw-in or in a bulk lot without a second thought. Bulk lands with narrow synergy homes rarely climb unless a breakout commander drives sustained demand, so treat it as a freely available role-player rather than a spec target.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.