Sejiri Steppe
Land
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, target creature you control gains protection from the color of your choice until end of turn.
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- CMC
- 0
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Duel Decks: Knights vs. Dragons
- Price
- $0.34
- EDHREC rank
- #11193
Sejiri Steppe enters tapped, which is the real cost — but it replaces itself with a card and grants a creature protection from a color of your choice until end of turn. That protection doubles as an evasion enabler and a removal dodge, making this a land slot that actively does something in combat or in response to a kill spell.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Sejiri Steppe earns its keep, specifically in voltron and go-wide strategies that need to push damage through blockers or protect a key creature from a targeted removal spell. The enters-tapped clause is a real tempo hit in faster formats — in Legacy, Modern, and Vintage, that cost is almost never worth paying when fetchlands and duals exist. Pauper is the one competitive format where Sejiri Steppe sees occasional play, slotting into white aggro lists that value both the land and the cantrip in slower, grindier games. For Commander, the card's ceiling is highest in decks that care about the specific color of protection — dodging a blue Counterspell on the stack or making a creature unblockable against a mono-color token army.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.34 bulk tier
At $0.34, Sejiri Steppe is firmly bulk — you're picking this up as a throw-in, not tracking it down. Bulk utility lands with a built-in cantrip tend to stay flat; there's no meaningful price upside here, but there's also no risk in running a playset.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.