Shattered Landscape
Land
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., Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic Mountain, Plains, or Swamp card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Cycling 
(, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
- CMC
- 0
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BRW
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander
- Price
- $0.25
- EDHREC rank
- #1854
Shattered Landscape cycles away a basic land to go find another basic land — it's a cantrip that smooths your colors and fuels graveyard or discard synergies at the cost of a land drop. Zurgo Stormrender decks run it at over 55% inclusion because the cycling trigger itself is the point, not the land it fetches.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Zurgo Stormrender
Zurgo Stormrender cares about cycling triggers, and Shattered Landscape is one of the cheapest ways to fire one — it replaces itself, hits the graveyard, and keeps the chain going without spending a real card.
Neriv, Crackling Vanguard
Neriv, Crackling Vanguard rewards cycling with card advantage and creature production, so Shattered Landscape earns its slot as a zero-friction trigger that also fixes mana in a multicolor shell.
Zurgo, Thunder's Decree
Zurgo, Thunder's Decree builds around the cycling mechanic broadly, and Shattered Landscape is exactly the kind of cheap, repeatable trigger that keeps the engine fed without eating into the spell density.
Neriv, Heart of the Storm
Neriv, Heart of the Storm wants as many cycling triggers as possible, and Shattered Landscape provides one on a card that would have been a basic land anyway — no real cost, guaranteed trigger.
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 |
Shattered Landscape is a Commander card first — the cycling-matters commanders that give it meaning are all in that format, which explains the 50%+ inclusion in the most popular shells. In Pauper, it sees occasional play in cycling-combo decks that need every trigger they can find at common. Legacy and Vintage have access to far more powerful cycling payoffs and land fetchers, so Shattered Landscape doesn't make the cut there — the competition is simply too stiff. Pioneer and Standard players don't have access to it at all. If you're not building around a cycling commander, there's no reason to run Shattered Landscape over a basic.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.25 bulk tier
At $0.25, Shattered Landscape is deep bulk — you'll find copies in any dollar bin or as a throw-in with an order. There's no real upside pressure here; it's a role-player in a niche archetype with no competitive crossover to drive demand.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Zurgo Stormrender
- Neriv, Crackling Vanguard
- Zurgo, Thunder's Decree
- Neriv, Heart of the Storm
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.