Promising Vein
Land — Cave
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, , Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
- CMC
- 0
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- The Lost Caverns of Ixalan
- Price
- $0.24
- EDHREC rank
- #2936
Promising Vein enters the battlefield and immediately replaces itself with a basic land, so you're never down a card — the two-mana cost is the whole price. In decks that care about permanents entering or leaving, that on-board land fetch is doing double duty, and Gogo, Master of Mimicry lists in particular treat it as a value trigger first and ramp second.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Gogo, Master of Mimicry
Gogo, Master of Mimicry copies permanents, so every Promising Vein that enters is a trigger to exploit before it cracks — and cracking it is itself an event that feeds Gogo's copy-hungry engine.
Zoyowa Lava-Tongue
Zoyowa Lava-Tongue rewards you for sacrificing permanents, making Promising Vein a clean two-for-one: a land grab and a sacrifice outlet in one card.
Tifa Lockhart
Tifa Lockhart cares about cheap permanents and incremental value, and Promising Vein fits that curve perfectly — a two-mana spell that turns into a land without costing a card.
Zoraline, Cosmos Caller
Zoraline, Cosmos Caller builds around permanent-based resource generation, and Promising Vein slots in as self-replacing ramp that never strands you on two.
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, Promising Vein fills the role of budget two-mana ramp that replaces itself — not the most powerful slot in the format, but clean enough that sacrifice-focused and enters-the-battlefield decks are happy to run it. In competitive 60-card formats like Modern and Pioneer, self-replacing land fetches are available at higher efficiency, so Promising Vein mostly sits on the sidelines there. Pauper is its most interesting non-Commander home, where card-neutral two-mana ramp at common rarity is a genuine resource and every land drop matters. Standard is probably where it sees the widest incidental play — it's legal, it's cheap, and newer players drafting toward midrange value will find it fills a gap.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.24 bulk tier
At $0.24, Promising Vein is deep bulk — pick it up out of a common box or toss it in any order that hits a free shipping threshold. Bulk commons this functional don't typically spike, so buy as many as your decks need without a second thought.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.