Shire Terrace
Land
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, , Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
- CMC
- 0
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth
- Price
- $0.67
- EDHREC rank
- #2190
Shire Terrace enters tapped, produces any color, and has one job: trigger the food-and-Fellowship synergies that Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit // Sam, Loyal Attendant runs on. The cost is real — tapped lands lose tempo — but in a deck that cares about landfall-adjacent triggers and Hobbit tribal, that's an acceptable trade.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit // Sam, Loyal Attendant
Shire Terrace is a named Shire land, which matters for cards in the Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit // Sam, Loyal Attendant ecosystem that care about Hobbit-flavored permanents and food generation — 34% of Frodo decks already run it, the highest inclusion rate of any commander here.
Gogo, Master of Mimicry
Gogo, Master of Mimicry wants flexible mana across multiple colors to copy creatures efficiently, and Shire Terrace supplies that flexibility at minimal deck-building cost.
Merry, Warden of Isengard // Pippin, Warden of Isengard
Merry, Warden of Isengard // Pippin, Warden of Isengard runs in the same Hobbit-tribal space as Frodo, so Shire Terrace slots in as both on-theme fixing and a land that passes the flavor test for the archetype.
Samwise Gamgee
Samwise Gamgee triggers off food tokens and returning permanents, and Shire Terrace satisfies the Shire land subtype that several Hobbit-synergy cards reference, making it a natural inclusion.
Tifa Lockhart
Tifa Lockhart benefits from any reliable multicolor land that enters without restriction on color, and Shire Terrace provides that fixing cheaply enough that the tempo loss is forgiven in slower, combat-focused builds.
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 Shire Terrace belongs — tapped rainbow lands are far more acceptable in a singleton format where one missed turn of velocity matters less than having the right colors on curve. In Pauper, the competition from other common duals is stiff and the tapped drawback is more punishing in a faster format, so it sees fringe play at best. Legacy and Vintage have access to strictly superior untapped options, making Shire Terrace irrelevant in those formats outside of thematic builds. Oathbreaker mirrors Commander's logic: slower, more midrange-paced, and tolerant of enters-tapped lands when color fixing is the priority.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.67 bulk tier
At $0.67, Shire Terrace sits firmly in bulk territory — you're buying it for utility, not as a financial hold. It's unlikely to appreciate meaningfully unless Hobbit-tribal receives another major push, so pick it up as a cheap fixing piece and don't think twice about it.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit // Sam, Loyal Attendant
- Gogo, Master of Mimicry
- Merry, Warden of Isengard // Pippin, Warden of Isengard
- Samwise Gamgee
- Tifa Lockhart
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.