Wild Wasteland
Enchantment
Skip your draw step.
At the beginning of your upkeep, exile the top two cards of your library. You may play those cards this turn.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Fallout
- Price
- $2.16
- EDHREC rank
- #4181
Wild Wasteland enters the battlefield and immediately replaces itself with a free 1/1 Thopter token via Pia Nalaar, Consul of Revival — you're getting a land and a body for one card slot. The cost is that it only taps for colorless, so the more colored pips your deck demands, the harder that trade becomes.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Pia Nalaar, Consul of Revival
Wild Wasteland triggers Pia Nalaar, Consul of Revival on entry, netting a free 1/1 Thopter token every time it hits play — in artifact-matters or blink shells that replay it repeatedly, that's a card doing land and creature duty simultaneously.
Gwen Stacy
Wild Wasteland is a nonland card played from somewhere other than hand in many Gwen Stacy lines, and the colorless land slot fits cleanly into a strategy already leaning on artifacts and unconventional card sources to trigger her ability.
Fire Lord Zuko
Fire Lord Zuko cares about casting spells and generating pressure in the red zone, and Wild Wasteland slots in as a mana-neutral artifact-land hybrid that supports token and artifact synergies without asking for colored mana investment.
Faldorn, Dread Wolf Herald
Faldorn, Dread Wolf Herald rewards playing cards from exile and from outside the hand, and Wild Wasteland can be exiled and cast or otherwise triggered in ways that generate the Wolf tokens Faldorn wants — colorless fixing is an acceptable cost for the extra body.
Laelia, the Blade Reforged
Laelia, the Blade Reforged exiles cards and grows from casting them, so Wild Wasteland coming off the top and resolving as a free land plus artifact interaction feeds her engine without spending a card from hand.
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 |
Commander is where Wild Wasteland does its best work — the singleton format means any land that produces a body or triggers an ability on entry is pulling double duty in a 99-card context. In Legacy and Vintage it's technically legal, but colorless utility lands compete against Wasteland itself and a dense field of fetchable dual lands, so Wild Wasteland won't see serious play there. Oathbreaker follows Commander logic closely enough that the same artifact and enter-the-battlefield synergies apply. Modern, Pioneer, Standard, and Pauper are all off the table.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$2.16 cheap tier
At $2.16, Wild Wasteland sits in the cheap tier — low enough that it's a no-brainer inclusion in any Pia Nalaar, Consul of Revival build or artifact-matters shell that can absorb a colorless land. It holds that price point on the strength of a narrow but dedicated player base, not broad format demand.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.