Sand Silos
Land
This land enters tapped.
You may choose not to untap this land during your untap step.
At the beginning of your upkeep, if this land is tapped, put a storage counter on it.
, Remove any number of storage counters from this land: Add 
for each storage counter removed this way.
- CMC
- 0
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Fallen Empires
- Price
- $1.11
- EDHREC rank
- #16748
Sand Silos enters tapped and spends its first several turns doing nothing — then pays you back with burst colorless mana that immediately disappears if you don't spend it. It's a slow-burn land that rewards patient, high-CMC strategies and punishes anyone hoping for consistent early acceleration.
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 |
Sand Silos is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, and sees essentially zero competitive play in the 60-card formats — Legacy and Vintage have no interest in a land that enters tapped and stockpiles counters when those formats demand efficiency from turn one. Commander is the only realistic home, and even there Sand Silos occupies a narrow niche: colorless-matters or high-CMC artifact decks that can afford to wait several turns before cashing in the stored mana. The delayed payoff makes it a liability in fast pods and a marginal inclusion even in slower ones.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$1.11 cheap tier
At $1.11, Sand Silos sits at the low end of niche-but-playable territory — cheap enough that curiosity costs nothing, but the price reflects honest demand rather than hidden value. It's unlikely to appreciate given how few decks genuinely want it.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.