Misty Rainforest
Land
, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Forest or Island card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
- CMC
- 0
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Modern Masters 2017
- Price
- $35.08
- EDHREC rank
- #40
Misty Rainforest is the blue-green fetch land — it grabs any Island or Forest (including duals and shocks), thins the deck, and enables graveyard synergies, all for one life. It slots into virtually every deck running blue or green, from budget upgrades up to Rograkh, Son of Rohgahh // Silas Renn, Seeker Adept CEDH piles. The one real trade-off is the $35 price tag; the card is worth it, but cheaper fetches like Evolving Wilds exist if the budget doesn't.
Where It Shines
Where the extra mana on turn one matters most
Big-mana shells like Vivi Ornitier
Vivi Ornitier tutors artifacts to the battlefield, making untapped mana on turn one genuinely impactful — Misty Rainforest into a shock or dual means you're consistently threatening a turn-one rock without sacrificing late-game land quality.
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 |
In Commander, Misty Rainforest is format-defining — it appears in a higher percentage of blue-green decks than almost any non-land card, because consistent mana is the one thing every 100-card singleton deck needs. In Legacy and Vintage, it fills the same role in the most efficient shell possible: fetch-shock mana bases that punish greedy mulligans and enable turn-one combo setups. Modern remains its most competitive non-rotating home, where the life loss is a genuine cost against aggressive decks but the consistency advantage almost always outweighs it. Pioneer, Standard, and Pauper don't have access to Misty Rainforest, so if you're building in those formats, you're looking elsewhere entirely.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$35.08 premium tier
At $35.08, Misty Rainforest sits firmly in the premium tier — it's the most expensive fetch land in blue-green because blue is the most-played color in Commander and the demand never softens. Multiple reprints have kept the price from climbing higher, and future reprint risk is real, but the floor has historically stayed well above $20 given how broadly it's played.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Rograkh, Son of Rohgahh // Silas Renn, Seeker Adept
- Vivi Ornitier
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.