You Happen On a Glade
Instant
Choose one —
• Journey On — Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal them, put them into your hand, then shuffle.
• Make Camp — Return target permanent card from your graveyard to your hand.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Adventures in the Forgotten Realms
- Price
- $0.31
- EDHREC rank
- #8823
You Happen On a Glade puts a land directly onto the battlefield and replaces itself with a card draw — two meaningful effects stapled to a single spell. Borborygmos Enraged wants exactly this: lands in hand to pitch as Shock effects and a cantrip to keep the hand stocked.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Borborygmos Enraged
Borborygmos Enraged turns every land in hand into three damage, so You Happen On a Glade does double duty — it accelerates your mana development and then replaces itself with a fresh card, keeping the ammunition pipeline full.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
You Happen On a Glade is a Commander card front to back — the cantrip rider covers the tempo cost well enough in a 100-card singleton format where consistency is scarce. In competitive 60-card formats like Modern and Pioneer it's strictly outclassed: Sakura-Tribe Elder, Farseek, and Three Visits all ramp without asking you to spend the card immediately on replacing themselves, and none of them cost three mana. Legacy and Vintage have no interest in a three-mana sorcery that just finds a basic. Play You Happen On a Glade in Commander and nowhere else.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.31 bulk tier
At $0.31, You Happen On a Glade sits firmly in bulk territory — easy to acquire and unlikely to spike given its narrow Commander niche. It won't hold or grow value, but at this price that's irrelevant: you're buying a functional piece, not making an investment.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Borborygmos Enraged
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.