Urban Burgeoning
Enchantment — Aura
Enchant land
Enchanted land has "Untap this land during each other player's untap step."
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Return to Ravnica
- Price
- $0.18
- EDHREC rank
- #13997
Urban Burgeoning turns a single land into an untap engine every upkeep — effectively doubling its mana output for the rest of the game. Two mana for that effect is a real rate, but it only pulls weight in decks that exploit untap triggers or run high-value utility lands worth repeating.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Urban Burgeoning is a Commander card — the repeating upkeep trigger only compounds value in a long multiplayer game, and that's exactly where it lives. In competitive formats like Modern, Legacy, or Pioneer, a two-mana Aura that doesn't affect the board and does nothing the turn it enters is simply unplayable. Pauper is the one non-Commander format where incremental value enchantments occasionally find niche homes, but the effect isn't strong enough to compete there either. In Commander, it earns its slot in decks built around untap synergies, high-value utility lands like Gaea's Cradle or Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx, or commanders that care about extra mana steps — everywhere else it's cut fodder.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.18 bulk tier
At $0.18, Urban Burgeoning is deep bulk — easy to acquire and easy to throw in without budget concern. It won't climb in price; the card sees too little constructed play and has no scarcity to prop it up, so grab it for pennies and don't think twice.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.