Thran Quarry
Land
At the beginning of the end step, if you control no creatures, sacrifice this land.
: Add one mana of any color.
- CMC
- 0
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Magic Online Promos
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #14057
Thran Quarry taps for any color of mana — the dream — but sacrifices itself at end of turn if you control no artifacts, making it a liability in any deck that doesn't lean heavily on the card type. In artifact-dense shells it's a free dual; in everything else it's a land that suicides on turn three.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Thran Quarry is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, and sees essentially no competitive play in Legacy or Vintage where the format's best lands set a bar it can't clear outside niche artifact lists. Commander is where Thran Quarry finds its actual home — artifact commanders like Breya, Etherium Shaper or The Ur-Dragon builds stuffed with mana rocks can reliably keep an artifact on board and treat it as a painless five-color fixer. Outside artifact-heavy decks, the sacrifice clause makes it actively dangerous in the mid-game when board wipes clear your artifacts and strand you a land short.
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Price Context
Current price
unknown tier
Current pricing data for Thran Quarry isn't available in the system, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for the latest. As an older card with narrow playability, it historically sits in the budget-to-mid range — worth picking up if you're building around artifacts, not worth hunting down otherwise.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.