Shardless Outlander
Artifact Creature — Construct Scout
Trample (This creature can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.)
Basic landcycling 
(, Discard this card: Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)
- CMC
- 7
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Foundations Jumpstart
- Price
- $0.17
- EDHREC rank
- #13331
Shardless Outlander lands as a 2/2 with protection from two colors and cascade, turning a three-mana creature into a free card and a threat that dodges a wide swath of interaction. The cost is variance — cascade into the wrong hit and you've wasted the upside, but in a deck built around The Capitoline Triad, that randomness collapses into a nearly guaranteed payoff.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
The Capitoline Triad
The Capitoline Triad's ability to recur and rebuy cascade triggers makes Shardless Outlander one of its most consistent engines — every cast is a two-for-one that also advances the Triad's board state, and the protection clause keeps it alive long enough to matter.
Ellie and Alan, Paleontologists
Ellie and Alan, Paleontologists care about hitting creature types off the top, and Shardless Outlander's cascade does exactly that work for free — it digs into the library while putting a resilient body into play, which is the exact texture Ellie and Alan want on turn three.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Shardless Outlander does its best work — the singleton format makes cascade more consistent relative to a curated low-curve package, and the 100-card size means you can tune the floor of what you hit. In Legacy and Vintage it's legal but competes against a much higher power ceiling, and the three-mana slot is punishing in formats where the game is often decided before turn four. Pauper is the sleeper case: at common, Shardless Outlander is one of the stronger cascade pieces available at that rarity, and a deck built to hit two-mana spells off the cascade can extract real value.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.17 bulk tier
At $0.17, Shardless Outlander is deep bulk — pick it up as a throw-in or grab a playset without thinking about it. Bulk rares with narrow homes rarely climb on their own, so treat it as a role-player to acquire now rather than a spec.
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Sources
Mentioned
- The Capitoline Triad
- Ellie and Alan, Paleontologists
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.