Pine Barrens
Land
This land enters tapped.
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. This land deals 1 damage to you.
- CMC
- 0
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BG
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Tempest
- Price
- $1.73
- EDHREC rank
- #20726
Pine Barrens enters tapped and produces either black or green mana — a dual land with a real cost stapled to it. It's fine in casual Commander where tempo matters less, but there are strictly better options at every price point if you're optimizing.
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 |
In Commander, Pine Barrens occupies the bottom tier of dual lands — it does the color-fixing job but the enters-tapped penalty costs you a full turn of development, and that compounds badly in the early game. Legacy and Vintage have access to the original dual lands and fetchlands, so Pine Barrens sees no competitive play there. It's not legal in Modern, Pioneer, Standard, or Pauper, which effectively makes Commander and Oathbreaker its only practical homes. In Oathbreaker the faster pace makes the tapped penalty sting even more, so it's a last-resort inclusion there as well.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$1.73 cheap tier
At $1.73, Pine Barrens sits in budget territory but is awkwardly priced — you can get a Golgari Rot Farm or a Jungle Hollow for less and accept a similar trade-off, or stretch slightly further for a Woodland Chasm. The price is unlikely to climb given the card's limited utility and the abundance of superior alternatives.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.