Tropical Island
Land — Forest Island
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- CMC
- 0
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- GU
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Foreign Black Border
- Price
- $950.00
- EDHREC rank
- #364
Tropical Island enters untapped, taps for either blue or green, and never asks you to pay a life or reveal your hand — that's the whole argument. The problem is it costs around $950, which is a real number that only makes sense at the top tier of competitive Commander play, where Thrasios, Triton Hero // Yoshimaru, Ever Faithful decks pay it without blinking.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Thrasios, Triton Hero // Yoshimaru, Ever Faithful
Thrasios, Triton Hero // Yoshimaru, Ever Faithful is the definitive cEDH Simic shell, and Tropical Island shows up in over 80% of those lists because the deck runs every untapped blue-green dual it can find to guarantee fast, painless access to both colors on turn one.
Tevesh Szat, Doom of Fools // Thrasios, Triton Hero
Tevesh Szat, Doom of Fools // Thrasios, Triton Hero is a four-color cEDH pile that leans heavily on Thrasios's activated ability, and Tropical Island slots in as one of the cleanest ways to hold up blue and green mana simultaneously without losing a life to a shock.
Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy
Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy cares about non-land mana sources, but its supporting cast demands consistent blue and green from the first turn, so Tropical Island earns its slot by never slowing the engine down.
Sisay, Weatherlight Captain
Sisay, Weatherlight Captain decks run five-color mana bases where every untapped dual that covers green is load-bearing, and Tropical Island's reliability across a long game justifies its inclusion in the more tuned builds.
Derevi, Empyrial Tactician
Derevi, Empyrial Tactician wants to be moving on turn one and can't afford a land that enters tapped, so Tropical Island earns a spot in optimized lists as a no-compromises source of blue or green whenever Derevi needs it.
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 |
Tropical Island is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker — and banned from every other format by virtue of never being printed in a modern-legal set. Legacy is where it sees the most non-Commander play, anchoring Simic and four-color shells that need untapped blue-green on turn one. Vintage runs it for the same reason, though the power ceiling of that format makes the land itself feel unremarkable in context. Commander is the format where demand is highest and supply is thinnest, because every optimized Simic or multicolor deck with blue and green wants one and there are no competitive reprints on the horizon.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Budget Alternatives
Cheaper options that do most of the same work
Breeding Pool does the same job for around $12 — it enters untapped if you pay 2 life, which is the only real trade-off in a 40-life format. If even that feels steep, Hinterland Harbor and Rejuvenating Springs both enter untapped under common conditions and cost under $3, though they're meaningfully less reliable in the early turns when Tropical Island most distinguishes itself.
Price Context
Current price
$950.00 premium tier
At $950, Tropical Island sits at the very top of the Commander land market — this is a Reserved List dual, which means the supply is permanently fixed at whatever exists in circulation today. It holds value because demand from competitive Commander and Legacy combined consistently outpaces supply, but at this price it's a luxury purchase, not a deck requirement.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Thrasios, Triton Hero // Yoshimaru, Ever Faithful
- Tevesh Szat, Doom of Fools // Thrasios, Triton Hero
- Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy
- Sisay, Weatherlight Captain
- Derevi, Empyrial Tactician
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.