Roving Keep
Artifact Creature — Wall
Defender
: This creature gets +2/+0 and gains trample until end of turn. It can attack this turn as though it didn't have defender.
- CMC
- 7
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Throne of Eldraine
- Price
- $0.14
- EDHREC rank
- #22583
Roving Keep is a 7/7 with vigilance and ward 2 that taps for colorless mana — a land that fights back. The cost is real: it enters tapped and the mana it produces is colorless, making it a liability in any deck that needs early action or colored consistency.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Roving Keep occupies a narrow slot — it works in decks that either don't care about color (Eldrazi, colorless, or five-color piles with fixing elsewhere) or specifically want lands that threaten combat. Outside Commander, it sees essentially no play: competitive formats run fast enough that a tapped land producing colorless mana is a meaningful tempo loss, and the 7/7 body only matters if the game slows to a crawl. Pauper is the one fringe exception where a land-creature with ward can grind in stall-heavy matchups, but even there better options exist. Roving Keep is a Commander card, full stop.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.14 bulk tier
At $0.14, Roving Keep is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard, not scarcity. That price is stable by definition: there's no spike catalyst for a colorless utility land with no tournament presence.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.