Zektar Shrine Expedition
Enchantment
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you may put a quest counter on this enchantment.
Remove three quest counters from this enchantment and sacrifice it: Create a 7/1 red Elemental creature token with trample and haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Zendikar
- Price
- $0.13
- EDHREC rank
- #18689
Zektar Shrine Expedition makes a 7/1 trample haste token — but you only get one shot at it, and it takes three landfall triggers to arm. In decks built around it, like Xavier Sal, Infested Captain, that token becomes a meaningful threat; everywhere else, the setup cost outweighs a single disposable attacker.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Zektar Shrine Expedition is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but it sees meaningful play in almost none of them. In Commander it finds a narrow home in dedicated landfall shells where hitting land drops is already the game plan and a 7/1 haste trampler can close out a damaged opponent. In Pauper the card is technically legal but the single-use payoff is too slow and too small to compete. Legacy and Vintage have no interest — the card does nothing on the axis those formats care about.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Xavier Sal, Infested CaptainIntruder AlarmStaff of TitaniaZektar Shrine Expedition
Infinite ETB; Infinite creature tokens; Infinite untap of creatures; Infinite mana creatures you control can produce; Infinite Forest tokens; Infinite landfall triggers; Infinite untap of creatures you control
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Xavier Sal, Infested CaptainIntruder AlarmJyoti, Moag AncientZektar Shrine Expedition
Infinite ETB; Infinite creature tokens; Infinite untap of creatures; Infinite mana creatures you control can produce; Infinite Forest tokens; Infinite landfall triggers; Infinite untap of creatures you control
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Xavier Sal, Infested CaptainIntruder AlarmAwaken the WoodsZektar Shrine Expedition
Infinite ETB; Infinite creature tokens; Infinite untap of creatures; Infinite mana creatures you control can produce; Infinite Forest tokens; Infinite landfall triggers; Infinite untap of creatures you control
View on Commander Spellbook ↗Price Context
Current price
$0.13 bulk tier
At $0.13, Zektar Shrine Expedition is deep bulk — pick it up for pennies if the landfall angle fits your build. That price is stable; there's no pressure driving it up, and it's widely available.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Xavier Sal, Infested Captain
- Intruder Alarm
- Staff of Titania
- Jyoti, Moag Ancient
- Awaken the Woods
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.