Windswept Heath
Land
, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Forest or Plains card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
- CMC
- 0
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Modern Horizons 3
- Price
- $10.60
- EDHREC rank
- #46
Windswept Heath is a fetch land — it enters tapped, costs one life and a mana to crack, and tutors a Forest or Plains directly onto the battlefield — and it earns its spot in nearly every white or green Commander deck that can run it. Even in a five-color pile like Thrasios, Triton Hero // Yoshimaru, Ever Faithful, the ability to grab the exact dual you need outweighs the life and tempo cost every time. The only real trade-off is the $10.60 price tag, not the card's design.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | banned |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Windswept Heath is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but it's banned in Pioneer — a format that specifically targeted fetch lands because of the consistency and graveyard synergy they enable at scale. In Legacy and Modern, fetch lands are format-defining, shaping deck construction around dual-land packages and enabling shuffle effects. Commander gives the restriction a full pass: the singleton rule means you run exactly one copy, and a 40-life starting total makes the one-life crack cost essentially irrelevant across the course of a game.
Where It Shines
Where the extra mana on turn one matters most
Big-mana shells like Kenrith, the Returned King
Kenrith, the Returned King runs every color and demands a mana base that can hit any pip on curve — Windswept Heath grabs the green or white dual you need on turn one so your Sol Ring or Birds of Paradise hits the table without a stumble.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$10.60 mid tier
At $10.60, Windswept Heath sits in the mid tier for a fetch land — cheaper than its blue-aligned counterparts like Scalding Tarn or Misty Rainforest, but priced about right for what it does. Multiple reprints have kept it accessible relative to the rest of the cycle, and it's the first fetch land to consider if you're building any white or green Commander deck on a reasonable budget.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Thrasios, Triton Hero // Yoshimaru, Ever Faithful
- Kenrith, the Returned King
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.