Survivors' Encampment
Land — Desert
: Add 
., Tap an untapped creature you control: Add one mana of any color.
- CMC
- 0
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Hour of Devastation
- Price
- $0.43
- EDHREC rank
- #2539
Survivors' Encampment taps for any color of mana as long as you control a creature — a real effect that costs nothing up front beyond the land slot itself. It earns its spot in any deck that can reliably keep a body on board, and Hazezon, Shaper of Sand, who constantly floods the battlefield with Desert Warrior tokens, almost never has trouble meeting that condition.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Hazezon, Shaper of Sand
Hazezon, Shaper of Sand generates a stream of creature tokens that make the tapping condition on Survivors' Encampment trivially easy to satisfy, and the land's Desert subtype feeds directly back into Hazezon's own triggers — it's a two-way synergy in a single land slot.
Magda, Brazen Outlaw
Magda, Brazen Outlaw's engine runs on tapping Dwarves, and Survivors' Encampment gives those same creatures a second job by converting a tap into colored mana before Magda converts the tap into a Treasure — it stretches every activation further.
Kona, Rescue Beastie
Kona, Rescue Beastie wants a creature in play to function, which means Survivors' Encampment almost always has its condition met the moment Kona hits the table, turning the land into reliable fixing in what is often a multicolor shell.
Kalamax, the Stormsire
Kalamax, the Stormsire is a 4/4 that sits in the command zone and satisfies Survivors' Encampment's tap condition by itself, so the land doubles as a mana fixer in a Temur shell that regularly wants all three colors available.
Neerdiv, Devious Diver
Neerdiv, Devious Diver decks lean on having creatures ready to act, so Survivors' Encampment slots in as a low-cost utility land that converts that board presence into colored mana without asking for an additional investment.
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 |
Survivors' Encampment is strictly a Commander card — the condition of controlling a creature is almost always met in a 100-card singleton game full of creatures and token generators, and the fixing it provides is genuinely useful across three- and four-color builds. In Pauper it sees fringe play in creature-heavy shells where budget fixing matters, but the competition from better commons is real. In Modern and Pioneer the cost of running a land that does nothing on an empty board is too steep; those formats punish you hard for stumbling on mana, and Survivors' Encampment simply isn't reliable enough. Legacy and Vintage have access to duals and fetchlands that make this obsolete at every table.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.43 bulk tier
At $0.43, Survivors' Encampment sits firmly in bulk territory and is unlikely to climb — it's a narrow utility land with a conditional effect and no shortage of printings. Grab it for pennies whenever you need it; there's no reason to overthink the acquisition.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Hazezon, Shaper of Sand
- Magda, Brazen Outlaw
- Kona, Rescue Beastie
- Kalamax, the Stormsire
- Neerdiv, Devious Diver
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.