Perilous Landscape
Land
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., Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic Island, Mountain, or Plains card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Cycling 
(, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
- CMC
- 0
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- RUW
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Modern Horizons 3
- Price
- $0.27
- EDHREC rank
- #2023
Perilous Landscape enters tapped and produces colorless mana — both real costs — but its payoff is cycling itself for two mana, which makes it a cantrip land in any deck that wants to hit land drops early and find action late. Shiko and Narset, Unified decks run it at over 60% inclusion because cycling fuels their spell-slinging engine without sacrificing a card slot in any meaningful sense.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Shiko and Narset, Unified
Shiko and Narset, Unified rewards casting noncreature spells, and Perilous Landscape's cycling trigger counts — it's a land that pulls double duty as a free spell when you no longer need the mana.
Gavi, Nest Warden
Gavi, Nest Warden makes the first cycling activation each turn free, which means Perilous Landscape becomes a land that replaces itself at zero additional cost once Gavi is on board.
Elsha, Threefold Master
Elsha, Threefold Master cares about casting spells from the top of the library, and Perilous Landscape cycles out of hand to dig deeper — it's cheap card filtering stapled to a land slot.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Perilous Landscape is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker — but Commander is where it earns its keep. In 100-card singleton, a land that replaces itself when it's no longer useful is structurally valuable: you can run it as your 36th or 37th land and never feel punished by drawing it late. In Pauper it's a legitimate option in cycling-themed builds, where common-legal card filtering is scarce. In Legacy and Vintage the competition for land slots is too steep — nobody is cycling basics-substitute lands when format-warping lands exist — so its real home is Commander.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.27 bulk tier
At $0.27, Perilous Landscape is deep bulk — grab a copy out of any common box or $1 bin without thinking twice. Bulk cycling lands don't spike; this one holds its floor and nothing more.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.