Turbulent Springs
Land — Island Mountain
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This land enters tapped unless your opponents control eight or more lands.
- CMC
- 0
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- RU
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Secrets of Strixhaven Commander
- Price
- $8.15
- EDHREC rank
- #8376
Turbulent Springs bounces a land to untap two lands — net zero mana spent, net zero lands lost, but you've just reset your land's tap state mid-combo or end step. In Rootha, Mastering the Moment shells specifically, that's a repeatable ritual that costs nothing but deck slots.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Rootha, Mastering the Moment
Rootha, Mastering the Moment copies instants and sorceries, and Turbulent Springs gives her a free untap trigger on demand — bounce a land you weren't using, untap two, and you've generated the mana window to copy a spell or activate Rootha again without eating into your main resources.
Muddle, the Ever-Changing
Muddle, the Ever-Changing wants low-cost instants and sorceries to fuel its spellslinger payoffs, and Turbulent Springs slots in as a zero-net-cost cantrip for untap effects that keeps the engine turning without tempo loss.
Prismari, the Inspiration
Prismari, the Inspiration rewards casting spells cheaply and repeatedly, and Turbulent Springs supplies an instant-speed untap that doubles as a land-reset trick — nothing flashy, but it pads spell count and occasionally opens mana that shouldn't exist.
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 Springs is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, and illegal everywhere else — Modern and Pioneer cut it off entirely, and Pauper doesn't have it. In practice, Commander is where it actually sees play; the 87% inclusion rate in Rootha, Mastering the Moment decks isn't an accident. Legacy and Vintage have access to far more broken untap effects, so Turbulent Springs doesn't compete there. Oathbreaker is a plausible home if your planeswalker runs a spellslinger strategy, but the card's reputation is almost entirely Commander-built.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Budget Alternatives
Cheaper options that do most of the same work
If the untap effect is what you're after rather than the specific land-bounce clause, Vitalize does the same work for pennies and hits all your creatures instead of just two lands — better in token or mana-dork builds, worse in pure land-untap combos. Turnabout is a few dollars and untaps an entire land type at once, which outscales Turbulent Springs significantly the moment you have four or more lands in play.
Price Context
Current price
$8.15 mid tier
At $8.15, Turbulent Springs sits in the mid tier — expensive for a niche instant with a narrow application, but the price reflects its near-universal inclusion in Rootha, Mastering the Moment lists rather than broad demand. It's not a card you buy speculatively; you buy it because you're building that specific deck and the synergy is load-bearing.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.