Ruins of Trokair
Land
This land enters tapped.
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- CMC
- 0
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Pro Tour Collector Set
- Price
- $0.50
- EDHREC rank
- #16481
Ruins of Trokair gives you two white mana at instant speed for the price of a tempo hit — it enters tapped and costs you a turn of development to activate. It's a bulk role-player at best, strictly outclassed by any land that produces white without a drawback, and only worth running when you've exhausted better options.
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 |
In Commander, Ruins of Trokair competes in a slot where white decks already have access to better two-mana fixers and utility lands, so it belongs near the bottom of the priority list. Legacy and Vintage have no use for it — those formats demand lands that produce mana without setup cost. Oathbreaker plays a compressed game where tempo matters even more, making the enters-tapped penalty genuinely punishing. Ruins of Trokair is legal in these formats, but legality and playability are different conversations.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.50 bulk tier
At $0.50, Ruins of Trokair sits firmly in bulk territory, and there's no pressure driving that number up. Strictly better white lands exist at the same or lower price, so this is a filler pick when you're assembling a budget mana base and have already covered the obvious slots.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.