Orcish Settlers
Creature — Orc
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, Sacrifice this creature: Destroy X target lands.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Weatherlight
- Price
- $0.48
- EDHREC rank
- #17372
Orcish Settlers can destroy multiple lands for a single mana — the catch is that XX cost scales the investment steeply, and you have to sacrifice a land yourself to activate it. In dedicated land-recursion builds, that self-sacrifice reads as a feature; everywhere else, it's a real cost that limits how often you can pull the trigger.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Svella, Ice Shaper
Svella, Ice Shaper generates Icy Manalith tokens that produce three mana of any color, which means Orcish Settlers can dump that surplus mana into X and remove two or three lands in a single activation — the token engine directly fuels the land destruction payoff.
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 |
Commander is where Orcish Settlers sees essentially all of its play, slotting into land-disruption and land-recursion strategies that can absorb the self-sacrifice requirement. In Legacy and Vintage it's legal but irrelevant — faster, cleaner land destruction exists and doesn't ask you to blow up your own land first. Modern, Pioneer, Standard, and Pauper are all off the table. For Commander specifically, Orcish Settlers occupies a narrow niche: it's powerful in the right shell and nearly unplayable outside it.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.48 bulk tier
At $0.48, Orcish Settlers is firmly bulk — low enough that there's no financial barrier to picking one up if the deck calls for it. Bulk land-destruction pieces rarely spike without a breakout commander, so expect this price to stay flat.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Svella, Ice Shaper
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.