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Shifting Woodland

Land

This land enters tapped unless you control a Forest.
{T}: Add {G}.
Delirium — {2}{G}{G}: This land becomes a copy of target permanent card in your graveyard until end of turn. Activate only if there are four or more card types among cards in your graveyard.

CMC
0
Mana cost
Color identity
G
Rarity
rare
Set
Modern Horizons 3
Price
$4.46
EDHREC rank
#373
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Shifting Woodland card art
Shifting Woodland enters untapped and can copy any permanent card in your graveyard — that's a land slot doing the work of a threat. The cost is real: you need four other lands to activate it, and the copy vanishes at end of turn, so it rewards decks like Lumra, Bellow of the Woods that dump lands into the yard and need the effect immediately, or loops starring Aftermath Analyst that can exploit the copy before cleanup.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Lumra, Bellow of the Woods

Lumra, Bellow of the Woods

62.9% of decks · synergy 0.50

Lumra, Bellow of the Woods mills lands into the graveyard as a core function, which means Shifting Woodland almost always has a high-value target to copy — often another Lumra trigger enabler or a utility permanent — from the first time you activate it.

02
Thrasios, Triton HeroYoshimaru, Ever Faithful

Thrasios, Triton Hero // Yoshimaru, Ever Faithful

44.3% of decks · synergy 0.41

Thrasios, Triton Hero // Yoshimaru, Ever Faithful shells lean on graveyard-fueled value engines, and Shifting Woodland slots in as a flexible land that can impersonate whatever combo piece or utility permanent ended up in the bin.

03
Six

Six

48.2% of decks · synergy 0.35

Six mills cards as a matter of course, so Shifting Woodland routinely has a dense graveyard to pick from; copying a high-power permanent on the turn you need it can swing a game that Six's self-mill otherwise set up.

04
The Necrobloom

The Necrobloom

43.6% of decks · synergy 0.33

The Necrobloom puts lands into the graveyard repeatedly, feeding Shifting Woodland exactly the targets it needs — a land that becomes a second copy of a key permanent each turn is a natural fit for a deck already working the graveyard-land axis.

05
Hogaak, Arisen Necropolis

Hogaak, Arisen Necropolis

35.6% of decks · synergy 0.26

Hogaak, Arisen Necropolis demands a packed graveyard to cast itself, and that same yard makes Shifting Woodland a live threat on virtually every turn, letting the deck copy a sacrificed creature or a blown-up artifact without spending an extra card.

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 not legal
oathbreaker legal

Commander is where Shifting Woodland does its best work — 100-card graveyard engines mean the activation target is almost never thin, and a land that doubles as a permanent copy fits cleanly into any graveyard-matters build without occupying a spell slot. In Legacy and Vintage it's legal but too slow for the formats' pace; four other lands is a meaningful threshold when the game can end on turn one or two, and the end-of-turn clause prevents the copy from surviving to matter. Modern is the one non-rotating constructed format where Shifting Woodland could theoretically see play in a dedicated lands or graveyard deck, though it hasn't broken through competitively. Oathbreaker mirrors Commander's logic in miniature — smaller deck size means the graveyard fills faster, which if anything makes Shifting Woodland more consistent.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$4.46 cheap tier

At $4.46, Shifting Woodland sits at the high end of the cheap tier — fair for a land that enters untapped and holds genuine combo utility in graveyard-heavy Commander builds. It's not a card that's likely to crater in price given its multi-format legality and strong synergy numbers, but buy it for the effect, not as a hold.

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