Wooded Foothills
Land
, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Mountain or Forest card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
- CMC
- 0
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Onslaught
- Price
- $101.98
- EDHREC rank
- #48
Wooded Foothills is a fetch land — it enters untapped, grabs a Forest or Mountain, and fixes your mana at the cost of 1 life and a shuffle. The one real trade-off is that it only fetches two basic land types, which matters in four- and five-color builds like Dargo, the Shipwrecker // Tymna the Weaver where you need every color on curve.
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 |
Wooded Foothills is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, and Oathbreaker — the one exception is Pioneer, where it's banned alongside the rest of the fetch land cycle. In Legacy and Modern it earns its slot for pure mana efficiency and deck-thinning. Commander gives it a pass on the singleton restriction because a single copy is all you need; the 1-life payment is trivially cheap when games run 40 life and 40 turns, and any deck touching red or green has a reason to run it.
Where It Shines
Where the extra mana on turn one matters most
Big-mana shells like The Ur-Dragon
The Ur-Dragon's 9-mana commander tax means hitting your land drops cleanly every turn is non-negotiable, and Wooded Foothills does exactly that — enter turn one, fetch a dual or basic, never stumble on color. The mana fixing it provides in five-color dragon piles is worth the slot over any tapped alternative.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$101.98 premium tier
Wooded Foothills sits at $101.98, firmly in premium fetch land territory alongside Scalding Tarn and Misty Rainforest. It's a staple that sees play across Legacy, Modern, and Commander, so the price reflects genuine cross-format demand rather than speculation.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Dargo, the Shipwrecker // Tymna the Weaver
- The Ur-Dragon
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.