River Delta
Land
This land doesn't untap during your untap step if it has a depletion counter on it.
At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a depletion counter from this land.
: Add 
or 
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- CMC
- 0
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BU
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Ice Age
- Price
- $1.02
- EDHREC rank
- #26707
River Delta enters tapped and produces only blue and black, which is a real cost in a format where every land drop matters. It's a functional dual for Dimir decks, nothing more — run it when you need the eighth or ninth on-color land and budget is the constraint.
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 |
River Delta is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker — and realistically it only sees play in Commander, where the 100-card singleton requirement pushes players to fill out their dual-land slots with budget options. In Legacy and Vintage, the fetch-shock mana base is so dominant that River Delta doesn't make the cut; those formats punish tapped lands at every point of the curve. In Commander, it slots cleanly into any Dimir, Sultai, Grixis, or four-to-five-color deck that needs blue-black fixing without paying for a Watery Grave.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$1.02 cheap tier
At $1.02, River Delta sits in the cheap tier — affordable enough that budget is never the reason to avoid it. Demand is steady but unspectacular, so the price is unlikely to move much in either direction.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.