Shimmering Grotto
Land
: Add 
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, : Add one mana of any color.
- CMC
- 0
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Iconic Masters
- Price
- $0.18
- EDHREC rank
- #11369
Shimmering Grotto fixes any one color for a single mana, which sounds useful until you realize that mana cost makes it worse than almost every other fixer in the format. It's a last-resort inclusion — run it only when you've exhausted better options and still need a fifth or sixth source of off-color fixing.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Shimmering Grotto is a fallback fixer for five-color or heavily off-color decks that can't afford the full suite of dual lands — it enters untapped and does its job, but the one-mana tax stacks up across a long game. In Pauper, where the card pool for fixing is genuinely shallow, it sees more legitimate play as a colorless-to-any-color bridge in multicolor commons builds. Legacy, Vintage, and Modern all have so many superior options at the same price point or lower that Shimmering Grotto is effectively irrelevant in those formats. Pioneer sits in the same position — fetchlands are legal and cheap enough that this never makes the cut.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.18 bulk tier
At $0.18, Shimmering Grotto is deep bulk — you'll find it in a common box or pick up a playset for under a dollar without trying. The price reflects exactly what it is: a filler fixer with narrow applications, so don't expect it to move.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.