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Nurturing Peatland

Land

{T}, Pay 1 life: Add {B} or {G}.
{1}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Draw a card.

CMC
0
Mana cost
Color identity
BG
Rarity
rare
Set
Modern Horizons
Price
$6.60
EDHREC rank
#1535
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Nurturing Peatland card art
Nurturing Peatland enters untapped, produces black or green, and replaces itself the turn you're ready to cash it in — that's a dual land that draws a card, which is simply good. The life cost is real but minor, and in any deck running Squandered Resources or The Gitrog Monster, the land-in-graveyard upside turns the activation into a trigger rather than a cost.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
The Gitrog Monster

The Gitrog Monster

36.9% of decks · synergy 0.25

The Gitrog Monster draws a card whenever a land hits the graveyard, so activating Nurturing Peatland nets two cards in one move — the activation itself and the Gitrog trigger — making it one of the most efficient cantrip lands in the 99.

02
Hogaak, Arisen Necropolis

Hogaak, Arisen Necropolis

33.3% of decks · synergy 0.21

Hogaak, Arisen Necropolis wants cheap ways to fill the graveyard and keep mana flowing, and Nurturing Peatland delivers both — it fixes black-green mana early, then self-mills into the yard later to feed convoke and delve costs.

03
Betor, Ancestor's Voice

Betor, Ancestor's Voice

25.7% of decks · synergy 0.19

Betor, Ancestor's Voice cares about lands cycling through the graveyard zone, and Nurturing Peatland is one of the cleanest ways to put a land there on demand while replacing itself in hand.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

In Commander, Nurturing Peatland earns its slot in any black-green deck that values card parity — a land that draws a card is exactly the kind of resource-neutral play that keeps you competitive into the late game. In Legacy and Vintage, it sees niche play in Depths and graveyard shells where the cantrip activation stitches together combo turns without costing a real card. Modern is where it has the broadest footprint, showing up in Jund and midrange lists that need to hit land drops early and convert excess lands into cards late. Pioneer, Standard, and Pauper don't have access to Nurturing Peatland, which keeps it off the radar for newer players but firmly in the conversation for anyone building in eternal formats.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Budget Alternatives

Cheaper options that do most of the same work

If Nurturing Peatland is out of reach, Jungle Hollow and Golgari Guildgate both produce black and green without the cantrip — you lose the card-draw upside entirely, but the color fixing works at zero cost. The closest budget analogue that preserves some of the draw-land feel is Foul Orchard or, in decks that can absorb the color restriction, any cycling dual like Golgari Rot Farm, which at least returns a land to hand rather than trading it away.

Price Context

Current price

$6.60 mid tier

At $6.60, Nurturing Peatland sits in the mid tier — not an impulse buy, but not a budget obstacle either for a card that does the work of both a dual land and a cantrip. Demand is steady across Commander, Legacy, and Modern, so the price reflects genuine cross-format utility rather than hype.

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