Plow Under
Sorcery
Put two target lands on top of their owners' libraries.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- World Championship Decks 2000
- Price
- $0.58
- EDHREC rank
- #26118
Plow Under puts two lands on top of its owner's library — effectively skipping their next two draw steps and setting their mana back two turns. Five mana is a real ask, but the tempo swing against any non-green player is often game-warping.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Plow Under earns its keep: in a four-player game, targeting the player who's about to go off locks them out long enough for the table to respond, and green ramp decks hit five mana early enough that the cost rarely stings. In Legacy and Vintage it's legal but functionally unplayable — those formats move too fast for a five-mana sorcery that doesn't close the game. Modern is the same story; the format's threats and answers operate at a pace where tempo denial at sorcery speed for five mana is a non-starter. Oathbreaker, like Commander, rewards the card in slower, multiplayer-adjacent pods where two dead draw steps can decide a game.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.58 bulk tier
At $0.58, Plow Under sits firmly in bulk territory despite a niche but loyal Commander following. The price is stable — demand is too narrow to push it higher, but it's not the kind of card that gets reprinted into the ground either.
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Sources
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.