Sheltering Landscape
Land
: Add 
., Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic Mountain, Forest, or Plains card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Cycling 
(, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
- CMC
- 0
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- GRW
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Modern Horizons 3
- Price
- $0.24
- EDHREC rank
- #2134
Sheltering Landscape puts a basic land directly onto the battlefield — no tapping, no waiting — and draws you a card on top of it. That two-for-one at sorcery speed for two mana is clean enough that Kirri, Talented Sprout lists run it in nearly a third of builds to chain plant tokens off the land drop trigger.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Kirri, Talented Sprout
Kirri, Talented Sprout triggers on every land entering the battlefield, so Sheltering Landscape delivers an untapped basic plus a token and a card all in one play — it's one of the most efficient single-spell sequences the deck can produce.
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 Sheltering Landscape does its real work — any deck that cares about land drops, basic land counts, or just wants cheap cantripping ramp has a reason to run it. In Pauper it competes honestly with Lay of the Land and similar one-mana basics-fetchers, though the extra mana cost buys the card draw that makes the rate feel fair rather than clunky. Legacy and Vintage have access to far faster mana acceleration, so Sheltering Landscape doesn't make the cut there except in fringe landfall builds looking for redundancy. It's cleanest in Commander, where a two-mana ramp spell that replaces itself is a structural upgrade over anything that doesn't draw.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.24 bulk tier
At $0.24, Sheltering Landscape sits firmly in bulk territory — pick it up without thinking twice. Bulk commons rarely spike unless they find a broken interaction, and this one's ceiling is a staple role in creature-land decks, so don't expect the price to move.
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Sources
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.