Veldt
Land
This land doesn't untap during your untap step if it has a depletion counter on it.
At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a depletion counter from this land.
: Add 
or 
. Put a depletion counter on this land.
- CMC
- 0
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- GW
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Ice Age
- Price
- $1.22
- EDHREC rank
- #28624
Veldt enters tapped and produces colorless mana, making it a land you run only when the upside — swapping it for a basic at the start of your upkeep — is actually worth the tempo loss. In most Commander decks it isn't, but in landfall or land-recursion shells where cycling a land through your library has real value, it earns its 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 |
Veldt is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but it's a Commander card through and through — the singleton format and slower pace are the only context where trading a tapped colorless land for a basic is worth considering. In Legacy and Vintage, entering tapped is a death sentence; no competitive deck there has any reason to touch it. In Commander, Veldt is a fringe inclusion that surfaces in landfall decks that want to keep replaying basics or in builds with land-matters payoffs that reward a high basic count — outside those specific homes, a basic land is strictly better.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$1.22 cheap tier
At $1.22, Veldt sits in budget territory but carries a price that outpaces its power level — you're paying a small premium for an obscure older printing rather than for raw card strength. It holds that price through scarcity, not demand, so don't expect it to climb.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.