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Mishra's Groundbreaker

Artifact

{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Target land becomes a 3/3 artifact creature that's still a land. (This effect lasts indefinitely.)

CMC
4
Mana cost
{4}
Color identity
C
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Masters Edition II
Price
—
EDHREC rank
#27974
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Mishra's Groundbreaker card art
Mishra's Groundbreaker hits the table as a free land-destruction spell that also replaces itself with a 3/3 artifact creature — the mana cost is literally zero. The catch is that it sacrifices a land you control, so pairing it with Lotus Field or other lands that want to be sacrificed turns a real cost into a free bonus.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern not legal
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Commander is where Mishra's Groundbreaker does its best work, slotting into artifact-matters, land-sacrifice, and land-recursion strategies that can convert the drawback into upside. Legacy and Vintage both permit it, but land destruction at sorcery speed with a mandatory self-sacrifice isn't competing with the efficient disruption those formats already have access to. Oathbreaker is legal and mirrors the Commander calculus — niche but real if your commander enables the line.

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Price Context

Current price

unknown tier

Pricing data for Mishra's Groundbreaker isn't currently available here, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for the latest. Given its narrow application, it tends to sit in budget territory — worth grabbing if your deck wants it, not a card to chase at a premium.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.