Marsh Flats
Land
, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Plains or Swamp card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
- CMC
- 0
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Magic Online Promos
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #51
Marsh Flats enters untapped, produces white or black mana immediately, and can cash itself in to fetch any Plains or Swamp — including dual lands like Godless Shrine — the moment you need to fix your colors or fuel graveyard synergies. The life payment is irrelevant in most shells; the consistency is not. Rograkh, Son of Rohgahh // Silas Renn, Seeker Adept lists run it at over 80% inclusion, which is the clearest possible signal that competitive Orzhov-touching decks treat it as a staple, not a luxury.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Rograkh, Son of Rohgahh // Silas Renn, Seeker Adept
Rograkh, Son of Rohgahh // Silas Renn, Seeker Adept is a cEDH engine that demands perfectly consistent mana from turn one, and Marsh Flats delivers that while also padding the graveyard for Silas Renn's combat trigger — every fetch is a free setup for artifact recursion.
Dargo, the Shipwrecker // Tymna the Weaver
Dargo, the Shipwrecker // Tymna the Weaver runs Marsh Flats at over 91% inclusion because the deck sacrifices permanents to reduce Dargo's cost, and a fetchland that cracks itself is a free sacrifice outlet that also fixes the deck's white-black-red mana.
Malcolm, Keen-Eyed Navigator // Vial Smasher the Fierce
Malcolm, Keen-Eyed Navigator // Vial Smasher the Fierce operates in a four-color shell where color consistency is a genuine constraint, and Marsh Flats resolves the white-black side of that equation while keeping the land count tight.
Tevesh Szat, Doom of Fools // Thrasios, Triton Hero
Tevesh Szat, Doom of Fools // Thrasios, Triton Hero is a cEDH pair that runs a nearly optimal mana base, and Marsh Flats earns its slot by fetching both white sources for Tevesh and blue-black duals for Thrasios depending on what the opening hand needs.
Tasigur, the Golden Fang
Tasigur, the Golden Fang's delve cost rewards filling the graveyard early, and Marsh Flats contributes a land card to the bin while fixing mana — making it incrementally better here than it would be in a shell with no graveyard payoff.
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 |
Marsh Flats is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, and Oathbreaker — and the contexts that matter most are Commander and Modern. In Commander it's a staple in any deck touching white or black that wants consistent mana and doesn't mind paying two life; the ability to fetch shock lands makes it color-flexible well beyond its nominal Orzhov identity. In Modern it slots into any white or black midrange, control, or combo shell as one of the ten fetchlands available, and the format's tight mana requirements make the flexibility mandatory in two- or three-color decks. Legacy and Vintage treat it like any other fetchland — technically legal, occasionally correct, but the format's power level means the choice between fetchlands is usually about what colors you're fetching, not which specific land you grab. Pioneer and Standard players don't have access to it, and Pauper's common restriction keeps it out entirely.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
unknown tier
Pricing data for Marsh Flats isn't available in the current feed, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for the live number — fetchland prices shift with reprint cycles and format demand. Historically it sits among the mid-tier fetchlands, typically cheaper than Scalding Tarn or Verdant Catacombs but priced in the same general band; if a reprint has recently landed, that's the window to pick one up.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Rograkh, Son of Rohgahh // Silas Renn, Seeker Adept
- Dargo, the Shipwrecker // Tymna the Weaver
- Malcolm, Keen-Eyed Navigator // Vial Smasher the Fierce
- Tevesh Szat, Doom of Fools // Thrasios, Triton Hero
- Tasigur, the Golden Fang
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.