Turbulent Moor
Land — Plains Swamp
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This land enters tapped unless your opponents control eight or more lands.
- CMC
- 0
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BW
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Secrets of Strixhaven Commander
- Price
- $7.49
- EDHREC rank
- #7733
Turbulent Moor enters untapped and cycles for one black mana — that's a land that replaces itself without losing tempo. In Killian, Decisive Mentor builds, the cycling cost gets halved to zero, making this effectively a free cantrip land.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Killian, Decisive Mentor
Killian, Decisive Mentor cuts the cycling cost of Turbulent Moor to zero, turning it into a land that cantrips for free the turn you play it — that's an absurd rate that almost no other land can match in this shell.
Silverquill, the Disputant
Silverquill, the Disputant decks lean on incremental value and spell density, and Turbulent Moor provides both a land drop and a card in hand, keeping the engine running without sacrificing a spell slot.
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 |
Turbulent Moor is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker — the formats where singleton rules or deep card pools make a cycling land's flexibility genuinely useful. In Commander it's at its best when a cost-reduction commander like Killian is in the command zone, but even without that synergy it fills a land slot while smoothing draws in the late game. Legacy and Vintage have better options for nearly every role this fills, so it sees essentially no competitive play there. Oathbreaker mirrors Commander in most respects and the same Killian-style synergy applies.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Budget Alternatives
Cheaper options that do most of the same work
Barren Moor is the direct predecessor — same cycling cost, same land type structure, available for pennies, and functionally identical outside of the Killian cost-reduction interaction. If you're not running a commander who cares about cycling costs specifically, Barren Moor covers everything Turbulent Moor does for a fraction of the price.
Price Context
Current price
$7.49 mid tier
At $7.49, Turbulent Moor sits in the mid tier almost entirely because of its outsized role in Killian, Decisive Mentor decks — demand from a single hyper-focused commander is propping up most of that price. Outside that shell it's a strict downgrade from Barren Moor at a 750x markup, so only pay this price if Killian is your commander.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.