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Riveteers Overlook

Land

When this land enters, sacrifice it. When you do, search your library for a basic Swamp, Mountain, or Forest card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle and you gain 1 life.

CMC
0
Mana cost
Color identity
C
Rarity
common
Set
Streets of New Capenna
Price
$0.28
EDHREC rank
#704
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Riveteers Overlook card art
Riveteers Overlook enters tapped and fetches any basic land into your hand — slow, but in Jund and four-color shells that care about landfall triggers, every land drop is an event worth engineering. Tifa Lockhart decks run it at over 50% inclusion because the triggered ability fires on the land you play from hand, not the fetch itself, which means Retreat to Emeria and similar payoffs see the full sequence.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Tifa Lockhart

Tifa Lockhart

50.2% of decks · synergy 0.44

Tifa Lockhart's combat triggers scale with lands entering the battlefield, and Riveteers Overlook delivers two landfall events from a single turn — the Overlook itself, then the basic you play from hand next turn — making it a reliable engine piece in over half of all Tifa lists.

02
Hearthhull, the Worldseed

Hearthhull, the Worldseed

73.3% of decks · synergy 0.43

Hearthhull, the Worldseed cares about lands entering from multiple zones, and Riveteers Overlook's fetch-to-hand line guarantees a follow-up land drop that Hearthhull can convert into additional value, which explains its 73% inclusion rate across nearly 24,000 decks.

03
Tannuk, Memorial Ensign

Tannuk, Memorial Ensign

46.2% of decks · synergy 0.42

Tannuk, Memorial Ensign runs a tight landfall-matters package, and Riveteers Overlook slots in as a cheap, repeatable way to smooth mana while padding the land-drop count that Tannuk's triggers depend on.

04
Szarel, Genesis Shepherd

Szarel, Genesis Shepherd

72.4% of decks · synergy 0.42

Szarel, Genesis Shepherd benefits from sequential land drops, and Riveteers Overlook's hand-reload guarantees Szarel's controller has a land to play on the following turn, keeping the engine moving at 72% inclusion across Szarel builds.

05
Auntie Ool, Cursewretch

Auntie Ool, Cursewretch

54.6% of decks · synergy 0.24

Auntie Ool, Cursewretch runs Riveteers Overlook primarily as fixing — the Jund color identity makes three-color basics hard to sequence, and the Overlook's tutor effect ensures the right basic arrives on time.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper legal
oathbreaker legal

Riveteers Overlook is a Commander card through and through — the landfall synergies and basic-land tutoring only pay off in a 100-card singleton format where hitting the right basic on curve can matter and where redundant copies of better fetchlands aren't legal in the same density. In Pauper it's technically playable but competes with more efficient common fixing, and the enters-tapped drawback is a steeper cost in a faster format. Modern, Pioneer, and Legacy have access to fetchlands that do the same job without the tempo loss, so Riveteers Overlook sees essentially no play there. Stick to Commander, where the landfall upside justifies the slot.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

155 decks
Retreat to EmeriaHaru, Hidden TalentRiveteers Overlook

Retreat to EmeriaHaru, Hidden TalentRiveteers Overlook

Infinite ETB; Infinite lifegain triggers; Infinite lifegain; Infinite creature tokens; Near-infinite landfall triggers; Infinite landfall triggers; Put all basic Mountains from your library onto the battlefield tapped; Put all basic Forests from your library onto the battlefield tapped; Put all basic Swamps from your library onto the battlefield tapped

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Price Context

Current price

$0.28 bulk tier

At $0.28, Riveteers Overlook is deep bulk — grab a copy without a second thought if you're building any Jund or four-color landfall list. Bulk uncommons with narrow but real synergy homes tend to stay at this floor, so don't expect movement in either direction.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.