Encroaching Wastes
Commander Legends 481 • uncommon
- Set
- Commander Legends
- Collector number
- 481
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Type
- Land
- Colors
- Colorless
- Artist
- Noah Bradley
- Market price
- $0.31
What it does
tap: Add colorless mana.
4 generic mana, tap, Sacrifice this land: Destroy target nonbasic land.
Every world is a work in progress, constantly reshaped by time, disasters, and even the powerful magic of Planeswalkers.
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerLegal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperNot legal
- BrawlLegal
- HistoricLegal
- TimelessLegal
- Penny DreadfulLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Encroaching Wastes was released in 2020 as part of the Commander Legends expansion, a set specifically designed for the Magic: The Gathering multiplayer Commander format. The card serves as a utility land intended to help players manage powerful non-basic lands in a format where such lands are ubiquitous, providing a controlled way to interact with an opponent's board state without the heavy mana commitment required by earlier, more powerful iterations of land-destruction effects.
The card features artwork by illustrator Johannes Voss, who rendered the landscape with a desolate, weathered aesthetic to match its functional role as a barren or ruined terrain. The design was received as a functional, balanced addition to the game's expansive pool of utility lands, offering players a budget-conscious, tactical option that occupies a niche space in high-lander deck construction.
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