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Vesuva

Land

You may have this land enter tapped as a copy of any land on the battlefield.

CMC
0
Mana cost
Color identity
C
Rarity
rare
Set
The List
Price
$3.82
EDHREC rank
#904
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Vesuva card art
Vesuva enters as a copy of any land on the battlefield — including lands with powerful activated abilities or type-based synergies — and the only cost is that it enters tapped. In Omo, Queen of Vesuva decks it's an auto-include, and anywhere Ashaya, Soul of the Wild is turning creatures into Forests, Vesuva can clone a key land and slot right into that web.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Omo, Queen of Vesuva

Omo, Queen of Vesuva

85.4% of decks · synergy 0.80

Omo, Queen of Vesuva's entire identity is land-type manipulation, and Vesuva copies whichever land in play is doing the most work — whether that's a utility land Omo has already granted extra types to or a mana engine you need a second copy of. The 85% inclusion rate is no accident; it's basically a staple.

02
Lumra, Bellow of the Woods

Lumra, Bellow of the Woods

53.4% of decks · synergy 0.50

Lumra, Bellow of the Woods rewards you for playing lands with multiple basic land types, and Vesuva can enter as a copy of whatever Forest-typed land is already generating the most value. That flexibility makes it easy to justify the slot.

03
Nine-Fingers Keene

Nine-Fingers Keene

46.2% of decks · synergy 0.43

Nine-Fingers Keene cares about having lands with as many different basic land types as possible, and Vesuva can copy a land that rounds out your type count or doubles up on a high-value utility land mid-game. Either line is worth a slot.

04
Lord Windgrace

Lord Windgrace

24.1% of decks · synergy 0.22

Lord Windgrace decks recur and abuse powerful lands repeatedly, and Vesuva gives you a second copy of whichever land is carrying the most weight — a Cabal Coffers, a Valakut, whatever the board calls for. The 24% inclusion rate reflects that it's good here, not mandatory.

05
The Necrobloom

The Necrobloom

24.0% of decks · synergy 0.20

The Necrobloom triggers off lands entering the battlefield, so Vesuva entering as a copy of a powerful land nets both a landfall trigger and the land's ability. At roughly 24% inclusion it's a strong role-player rather than a cornerstone.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Commander is where Vesuva does its best work — 100-card singleton means powerful lands are rarely duplicated, so copying an opponent's Gaea's Cradle or your own Cabal Coffers is a meaningful asymmetric advantage. In Legacy, Vesuva sees play specifically to copy Dark Depths and bypass the counter requirement entirely, making it a combo piece in a focused shell rather than a general good-stuff land. Vintage allows it but the format moves too fast for a tapped land to matter outside that same Dark Depths line. Vesuva is not legal in Pioneer, Standard, or Pauper, so the practical universe is Commander, Legacy, and Vintage.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$3.82 cheap tier

At $3.82, Vesuva sits in the cheap tier and is fairly priced for what it does — it's a unique effect with no functional reprint at the same power level, so the floor is unlikely to drop significantly. If you're building any land-matters Commander deck, picking one up now is straightforward value.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.