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Scholar of New Horizons

Creature — Human Scout

This creature enters with a +1/+1 counter on it.
{T}, Remove a counter from a permanent you control: Search your library for a Plains card and reveal it. If an opponent controls more lands than you, you may put that card onto the battlefield tapped. If you don't put the card onto the battlefield, put it into your hand. Then shuffle.

CMC
2
Mana cost
{1}{W}
Color identity
W
Rarity
rare
Set
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Price
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EDHREC rank
#2722
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Scholar of New Horizons card art
Scholar of New Horizons puts a land from your library directly into play the moment it enters — repeatable land search stapled to a body that untaps with every new creature. The cost is relying on that untap trigger, which means stax effects and creature removal punish you hard, but in any deck that floods the board with creatures, Scholar of New Horizons alongside Intruder Alarm turns every new arrival into a free land drop, and Sigurd, Jarl of Ravensthorpe decks in particular abuse that loop until the mana base is fully assembled.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Sigurd, Jarl of Ravensthorpe

Sigurd, Jarl of Ravensthorpe

42.9% of decks · synergy 0.42

Sigurd, Jarl of Ravensthorpe creates tokens whenever legendary creatures enter or attack, which means Scholar of New Horizons untaps constantly — those token triggers chain into more untaps, letting you rip land after land out of the deck in a single turn.

02
Tom Bombadil

Tom Bombadil

42.3% of decks · synergy 0.41

Tom Bombadil cares about sagas entering and leaving, generating a parade of token and nontoken triggers that untap Scholar of New Horizons repeatedly, turning the enchantment-heavy gameplan into a land-acceleration engine on top of everything else.

03
Tidus, Yuna's Guardian

Tidus, Yuna's Guardian

37.9% of decks · synergy 0.35

Tidus, Yuna's Guardian triggers off party members entering the battlefield, and Scholar of New Horizons as a Scout fills the party slot while untapping itself off those same entries — it's doing double duty as both ramp engine and role-filler.

04

Eirdu, Carrier of Dawn

31.5% of decks · synergy 0.29

Eirdu, Carrier of Dawn rewards stacking creatures with relevant types, and Scholar of New Horizons slots cleanly into that shell as a self-untapping ramp piece that accelerates the mana base every time Eirdu's triggers fire.

05
Yuna, Hope of Spira

Yuna, Hope of Spira

25.3% of decks · synergy 0.24

Yuna, Hope of Spira generates token creatures as part of her core loop, and each one untaps Scholar of New Horizons — that steady drip of untap triggers translates directly into extra lands in play ahead of schedule.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Commander is where Scholar of New Horizons lives; 100-card singleton games run long enough for the untap engine to fire multiple times, and the format's creature-dense strategies give it consistent fuel. In Legacy and Vintage it's technically legal but has no competitive presence — the untap trigger is far too slow for those formats and the effect too marginal at one land per untap to compete with dedicated ramp spells. Oathbreaker mirrors Commander's creature-rich environment and is the one other format where the card can realistically show up, especially in go-wide signatures.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

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Scholar of New HorizonsIntruder AlarmKithkin SpelldusterAshnod's Altar

Scholar of New HorizonsIntruder AlarmKithkin SpelldusterAshnod's Altar

Infinite colorless mana; Infinite death triggers; Infinite ETB; Infinite LTB; Infinite mana creatures you control can produce; Infinite sacrifice triggers; Infinite untap of creatures; Put all Plains cards from your libary into your hand; Infinite untap of creatures you control

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Scholar of New HorizonsIntruder AlarmLesser MasticoreAshnod's Altar

Scholar of New HorizonsIntruder AlarmLesser MasticoreAshnod's Altar

Infinite colorless mana; Infinite death triggers; Infinite ETB; Infinite LTB; Infinite mana creatures you control can produce; Infinite sacrifice triggers; Infinite untap of creatures; Put all Plains cards from your libary into your hand; Infinite untap of creatures you control

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Price Context

Current price

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Pricing data for Scholar of New Horizons isn't currently available in the system, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for a live number. Given its combo ceiling with Intruder Alarm and its high inclusion rate in several popular commanders, it's worth confirming availability before assuming it's a bulk pickup.

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