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Selesnya Sanctuary

Land

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand.
{T}: Add {G}{W}.

CMC
0
Mana cost
Color identity
GW
Rarity
common
Set
Ravnica: City of Guilds
Price
$0.46
EDHREC rank
#533
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Selesnya Sanctuary card art
Selesnya Sanctuary enters tapped and bounces a land you control — that's a real cost — but it produces two mana every subsequent turn and triggers landfall twice, which is the entire reason commanders like Kodama of the East Tree and Obuun, Mul Daya Ancestor run it. The bounce is a downside you play around, not a dealbreaker.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Obuun, Mul Daya Ancestor

Obuun, Mul Daya Ancestor

65.4% of decks · synergy 0.54

Obuun, Mul Daya Ancestor cares about lands entering the battlefield, and Selesnya Sanctuary entering plus the replayed land from your hand means two landfall triggers on your turn — that's two chances to grow a land creature or put +1/+1 counters.

02
Kaust, Eyes of the Glade

Kaust, Eyes of the Glade

42.2% of decks · synergy 0.31

Kaust, Eyes of the Glade triggers off lands entering, so the bounce loop Selesnya Sanctuary enables with a land that has its own enter trigger turns a single card into a repeatable engine.

03
Morska, Undersea Sleuth

Morska, Undersea Sleuth

39.7% of decks · synergy 0.26

Morska, Undersea Sleuth rewards playing multiple lands per turn, and Selesnya Sanctuary's built-in bounce guarantees a second land drop every time you replay the bounced land from hand.

04
Ghired, Conclave Exile

Ghired, Conclave Exile

37.1% of decks · synergy 0.26

Ghired, Conclave Exile decks lean on token doublers and combat, but Selesnya Sanctuary earns its slot by reliably fueling the heavy mana costs — hitting two-color production consistently matters when you're casting four- and five-drops.

05
The Wandering Minstrel

The Wandering Minstrel

26.8% of decks · synergy 0.25

The Wandering Minstrel's landfall triggers stack quickly, and Selesnya Sanctuary contributes two of them per rotation when paired with a fetchable land, making it a quiet overperformer in that shell.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Selesnya Sanctuary is a staple in Commander and essentially nowhere else. In EDH, the bounce clause is almost irrelevant — games are slow enough that entering tapped on turn two rarely costs you the game, and the landfall synergies in green-white decks make it genuinely powerful. In Pauper it's legal but rarely played, since tempo matters far more at common rarity in that format and entering tapped with a drawback is a steep ask. Legacy, Vintage, and Modern all have access to it but have no reason to run it — dual lands and fetchlands make Selesnya Sanctuary redundant in any environment where speed is a premium.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.46 bulk tier

At $0.46, Selesnya Sanctuary is bulk — you'll find it in any collection or draft chaff pile, and there's no reason to pay more. Supply is deep across multiple printings, so the price is stable and the floor is already about as low as it gets.

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