Rustic Clachan
Land
As this land enters, you may reveal a Kithkin card from your hand. If you don't, this land enters tapped.
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(, Discard this card: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.)
- CMC
- 0
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Duel Decks: Elspeth vs. Tezzeret
- Price
- $0.30
- EDHREC rank
- #20542
Rustic Clachan enters untapped and puts a +1/+1 counter on a Kithkin you control — real, immediate board impact from a land slot. The cost is tribal lock-in: outside a Kithkin shell, it's a Plains with a drawback, and that's a bad deal.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Brigid, Clachan's Heart
Brigid, Clachan's Heart cares about Kithkin entering with counters and triggers off the tribe broadly, so Rustic Clachan pulling double duty as a land and a counter-delivery system is exactly the kind of efficiency the deck wants.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Rustic Clachan is a staple in dedicated Kithkin builds and nearly unplayable elsewhere — tribal land slots are precious, and this one earns its spot only if the creature type is your whole game plan. In Legacy and Vintage, Kithkin tribal isn't a competitive archetype, so Rustic Clachan sits on the shelf regardless of legality. Modern is the same story: the card is legal but has no realistic home outside fringe casual play. Oathbreaker mirrors the Commander calculus — run it under a Kithkin planeswalker, ignore it otherwise.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.30 bulk tier
At $0.30, Rustic Clachan is deep bulk — easy to acquire and not worth cutting for budget reasons. Tribal lands with built-in effects rarely spike unless the tribe breaks out, and Kithkin isn't on that trajectory.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Brigid, Clachan's Heart
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.