Paradox Gardens
Land
This land enters tapped.
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, : Surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)
- CMC
- 0
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- GU
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Secrets of Strixhaven
- Price
- $0.17
- EDHREC rank
- #14542
Paradox Gardens enters as a land that produces any color but taxes you one life per use — a real cost that compounds over a long game. In Zimone, Infinite Analyst builds where repeated land drops are the engine, the flexibility is worth it; everywhere else, you're probably just running a worse dual.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Zimone, Infinite Analyst
Zimone, Infinite Analyst cares about dropping multiple lands per turn, and Paradox Gardens slots in as a fetchable, color-flexible piece that keeps the engine moving without requiring basic land typing.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Paradox Gardens competes in the crowded bracket of five-color fixing lands, and the life-per-tap clause makes it strictly worse than painless options in most non-budget lists. It earns a slot in Zimone, Infinite Analyst decks and any strategy that prioritizes land count over life total. In competitive eternal formats — Legacy, Vintage, Modern — it simply doesn't clear the bar; City of Brass and Mana Confluence do the same job with more reliable mana. Pauper is the one format where budget five-color fixing is genuinely scarce, and Paradox Gardens holds real value there.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.17 bulk tier
At $0.17, Paradox Gardens is bulk — pick it up without hesitation if it fits your list. Don't expect that price to move; it's a niche role-player with no crossover demand from competitive formats.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.