Reef Shaman
Creature — Merfolk Shaman
: Target land becomes the basic land type of your choice until end of turn.
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Apocalypse
- Price
- $0.26
- EDHREC rank
- #20160
Reef Shaman is a one-mana 0/1 that taps to change a land's type until end of turn — narrow utility at a steep opportunity cost in a 99-card format. Unless you're explicitly engineering interactions around basic land types, a slot is too precious for this.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Reef Shaman occupies a hyper-niche role: decks that need to flip a land's type on demand for landfall triggers, Cabal Coffers activation, or Emeria Shepherd recursion are the only realistic homes, and even those decks usually have better options. In Pauper, the common-only card pool is where Reef Shaman is most plausible — land-type manipulation matters more in formats with tighter mana, and a one-mana body that enables color fixing or type-specific payoffs is worth considering in dedicated builds. Legacy and Vintage have access to stronger land-manipulation tools, so Reef Shaman has no competitive foothold there.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.26 bulk tier
At $0.26, Reef Shaman is deep bulk — you're paying for the cardboard, not the effect. It won't appreciate unless a future card creates a specific combo that demands repeatable land-type changing at one mana, which is a thin bet.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.