Mountain Valley
Land
This land enters tapped.
, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Mountain or Forest card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
- CMC
- 0
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- The List
- Price
- $0.28
- EDHREC rank
- #3124
Mountain Valley enters tapped and fetches a basic Mountain or Forest — that's the full deal, no upside, no tricks. It's a slot you run in Hearthhull, the Worldseed builds that want land-enters triggers or landfall, and a slot you cut everywhere else.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Hearthhull, the Worldseed
Hearthhull, the Worldseed cares about lands entering the battlefield, and Mountain Valley delivers that trigger on a fetchable basic — making it a near-automatic include at 45% of Hearthhull lists.
Szarel, Genesis Shepherd
Szarel, Genesis Shepherd decks lean on Forests and Mountains entering to fuel landfall and recursion engines, and Mountain Valley's fetch effect makes it a clean fit at roughly 40% inclusion.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Mountain Valley sees essentially no competitive play in Legacy or Vintage — formats where fetch lands that grab dual lands exist, a tapped land searching only basics is unplayable. Commander is where it lives: landfall decks, Hearthhull builds, and any Gruul or Naya list that needs cheap land-enter triggers alongside basics. Oathbreaker follows the same logic as Commander, so the same niche applies there. Outside those singleton formats, Mountain Valley isn't legal in Modern, Pioneer, Standard, or Pauper, and that's not a loss worth mourning.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.28 bulk tier
At $0.28, Mountain Valley is deep bulk — the kind of card you pull out of a common box rather than buy individually. Demand is narrow enough that the price is unlikely to move meaningfully in either direction.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.