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Scouting Trek

Sorcery

Search your library for any number of basic land cards, reveal those cards, then shuffle and put them on top.

CMC
2
Mana cost
{1}{G}
Color identity
G
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Invasion
Price
$0.80
EDHREC rank
#18729
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Scouting Trek card art
Scouting Trek arranges every basic land in your deck onto the top of your library — an instant-speed setup that turns Cultivator Colossus into a one-card engine that draws your entire deck. Three mana for that outcome is a deal; the cost is running enough basics to make the payoff worth engineering.

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 Scouting Trek belongs — the 100-card singleton format rewards library manipulation, and the card's ceiling scales directly with how many basics you're running. Legacy and Vintage legality is technically on the books, but neither format has a deck that wants to spend three mana stacking lands on top of the library when faster, more resilient engines exist. Oathbreaker is a reasonable home if the commander supports a lands-matter or big-draw payoff. Outside those 1v1 eternal formats, Scouting Trek simply isn't in the card pool.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.80 bulk tier

At $0.80, Scouting Trek sits in bulk territory despite being the engine piece for a legitimate Commander combo line. That price is unlikely to move unless a high-profile deck puts it on camera, so picking up copies now costs almost nothing.

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