Restless Vents
Land
This land enters tapped.
: Add 
or 
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: Until end of turn, this land becomes a 2/3 black and red Insect creature with menace. It's still a land.
Whenever this land attacks, you may discard a card. If you do, draw a card.
- CMC
- 0
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BR
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- The Lost Caverns of Ixalan
- Price
- $0.37
- EDHREC rank
- #4699
Restless Vents enters untapped, produces colored mana, and threatens to become a 4/3 flying menace that drains on attack — all on one land slot. The cost is real: the creature mode is slow, and in competitive Commander it rarely survives long enough to matter, but for Zoyowa Lava-Tongue and similar Grixis value engines, that incidental drain is free percentage.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Zoyowa Lava-Tongue
Zoyowa Lava-Tongue wants every draining effect it can find, and Restless Vents delivers that from the land slot with zero extra investment — the activation taps the land anyway, so you're not giving up mana to threaten life loss.
The Infamous Cruelclaw
The Infamous Cruelclaw's Grixis shell rewards lands that do more than tap for one, and Restless Vents fits cleanly as a low-risk threat that pressures life totals without consuming a spell slot.
Xira, the Golden Sting
Xira, the Golden Sting values incidental damage vectors that accumulate over a long game, and Restless Vents checks that box while doubling as a reliably colored mana source in a three-color identity.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Restless Vents earns its slot as a free roleplayer — it fixes mana in Grixis decks and occasionally closes out a drained opponent without consuming a spell slot. In competitive Commander it's too slow; the 5-mana activation telegraphs your turn and the 4/3 dies to anything. In 60-card formats like Modern and Pioneer, it sits on the fringes of Rakdos or Grixis midrange lists that want a land-based win condition, but it competes against a deeper pool of dual lands and rarely makes the cut. Standard is where Restless Vents is most actively played outside Commander, slotting into aggressive Grixis or Rakdos shells that can realistically activate it by turn five.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.37 bulk tier
At $0.37, Restless Vents is bulk — you're not paying a premium for the creature upside. That price is stable; there's no scarcity driving it up and no competitive demand spike on the horizon, so pick it up freely without budget concern.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.