Uproot
Sorcery — Arcane
Put target land on top of its owner's library.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Betrayers of Kamigawa
- Price
- $0.07
- EDHREC rank
- #28540
Uproot returns a land to its owner's hand — not destroys it, not exiles it, just bounces it for five mana at sorcery speed. That's a tempo loss for your opponent and a mana sink for you that rarely justifies the exchange in any competitive context.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Uproot sits below the threshold of playability — land destruction is already a fraught strategy at the table, and spending five mana to set one opponent back a single land drop is rarely worth the political cost or the card slot. Legacy, Vintage, and Pauper are formats where every card needs to pull serious weight; Uproot doesn't come close to seeing play in any of them. Pauper is the one context where bulk commons get the most scrutiny, and even there, Uproot doesn't make the cut. Oathbreaker's compressed game length makes the five-mana ask even harder to justify.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.07 bulk tier
At $0.07, Uproot is deep bulk — you'll find it in common bins or thrown into trade binders as filler. There's no meaningful demand driving the price up, and that's unlikely to change.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.