New Frontiers
Sorcery
Each player may search their library for up to X basic land cards and put them onto the battlefield tapped. Then each player who searched their library this way shuffles.
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Odyssey
- Price
- $5.44
- EDHREC rank
- #13336
New Frontiers puts a basic land into play tapped for every player who pays X — at X=3 in a four-player pod, that's up to 12 lands entering simultaneously, making it one of the most explosive group-ramp spells in Commander. The symmetry is the cost, but decks running Rootpath Purifier or piloted by Phelddagrif turn that symmetry into a feature rather than a bug.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Phelddagrif
Phelddagrif's entire game plan runs on giving opponents resources to buy goodwill and political leverage, so New Frontiers fits perfectly — you're accelerating everyone's mana as a deliberate gift while still gaining the same land yourself.
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 |
New Frontiers is a Commander card through and through — the X spell that floods the board with basics only scales to absurdity at a four-player table, where the political calculus of group ramp replaces the pure disadvantage it represents in one-on-one. In Legacy and Vintage it's legal but essentially unplayable; fast mana and combo-speed threats mean spending three or four mana to ramp an opponent on turn two is a concession, not a plan. Oathbreaker is the one alternative format where it occasionally appears, again in pillow-fort or group-hug shells where the symmetry is the point.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Budget Alternatives
Cheaper options that do most of the same work
Collective Voyage covers similar ground — it's a group-ramp spell that scales with the table's willingness to contribute mana, though it fetches any basic rather than rewarding specific land types. Shamanic Revelation and Skyshroud Claim aren't symmetric replacements, but if the goal is raw ramp rather than group politics, Nature's Lore and Three Visits do the same basic-land-untapped work for a fraction of the price without feeding opponents at all.
Price Context
Current price
$5.44 mid tier
At $5.44, New Frontiers sits in mid-tier pricing — meaningful enough that you're making a deliberate choice to include it, not a throwaway bulk inclusion. It's a reserved-list card with a single printing, so the floor is stable, but demand is narrow enough that it's unlikely to climb unless group-hug strategies spike in popularity.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.