Nahiri's Lithoforming
Sorcery
Sacrifice X lands. For each land sacrificed this way, draw a card. You may play X additional lands this turn. Lands you control enter tapped this turn.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Zendikar Rising Promos
- Price
- $0.99
- EDHREC rank
- #4123
Nahiri's Lithoforming lets you sacrifice any number of lands to draw that many cards twice and then replace those lands with fresh ones from the top of your library — a massive hand refuel stapled to a land reset. The cost is real: you're trading your current mana base for whatever the deck randomly serves up, so you need a reason to want lands entering the battlefield beyond just recovering tempo. Hazezon, Shaper of Sand is that reason, turning every land ETB into a Sand Warrior and making the reset feel less like a drawback and more like a second army.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Hazezon, Shaper of Sand
Hazezon, Shaper of Sand converts every land ETB into a Sand Warrior token, so Nahiri's Lithoforming doesn't just refill your hand — it floods the board with creatures proportional to how many lands you sacrificed.
Yuma, Proud Protector
Yuma, Proud Protector cares about lands going to the graveyard, and Nahiri's Lithoforming sends a stack of them there at once while simultaneously drawing a fistful of cards — one spell doing double duty for the engine.
Szarel, Genesis Shepherd
Szarel, Genesis Shepherd rewards lands entering from unusual zones, and Nahiri's Lithoforming's mass land replacement triggers that engine at scale, generating value well beyond a normal ramp spell.
Hearthhull, the Worldseed
Hearthhull, the Worldseed builds around land ETBs as a core resource, and Nahiri's Lithoforming provides a burst of them — plus the card draw — that can single-handedly reshape a mid-game board state.
Toph, Hardheaded Teacher
Toph, Hardheaded Teacher cares about lands entering the battlefield, so Nahiri's Lithoforming's replacement clause turns a sacrifice outlet into a wave of triggers that lines up cleanly with what the deck is already doing.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Nahiri's Lithoforming is a Commander card through and through — the payoff scales with the land-matters synergies that only really exist at the 100-card singleton table, and the four-mana cost is acceptable when you're refueling seven or eight cards at once. In competitive formats like Modern or Legacy it never sees play: four mana to draw cards and get lands back is catastrophically slow against interaction-dense fields, and there's no reliable land-ETB engine to exploit in those formats anyway. Pioneer is similarly inhospitable for the same reasons. Oathbreaker is the one non-Commander 60-card variant where it could theoretically slot into a land-matters spellslinger shell, but the card pool there is narrower and the payoff commanders fewer. Stick to Commander — that's the only format where Nahiri's Lithoforming is doing anything close to its ceiling.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.99 bulk tier
At $0.99, Nahiri's Lithoforming sits at the top edge of bulk — a fair price for a card with a real but narrow home. It's not a stable $1 card that will creep up; demand is tied entirely to land-matters commanders, so it'll stay in this range unless a future commander pushes the archetype into broader popularity.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.