Grim Backwoods
Commander 2020 278 • rare
- Set
- Commander 2020
- Collector number
- 278
- Rarity
- Rare
- Type
- Land
- Colors
- Colorless
- Artist
- Vincent Proce
- Market price
- $0.33
What it does
tap: Add colorless mana.
2 generic mana black mana green mana, tap, Sacrifice a creature: Draw a card.
"I love what they've done with the place."— Liliana Vess
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperNot legal
- BrawlNot legal
- HistoricNot legal
- TimelessNot legal
- Penny DreadfulLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Grim Backwoods was originally introduced in the Dark Ascension expansion for Magic: The Gathering in 2012, designed to provide utility for decks focused on creature-heavy strategies, specifically within the Golgari color identity. The card allows players to sacrifice a creature to draw a card, offering a repeatable engine for card advantage that turns dying creatures into resources. It was reprinted in the Commander 2020 set, specifically within the 'Symbiotic Swarm' deck, which leaned into graveyard interactions and creature synergies.
The artwork for the card, illustrated by Cliff Childs, captures the haunting and overgrown aesthetic characteristic of the Innistrad plane. Childs sought to depict a desolate, foreboding landscape that emphasized the dark magic of the setting. Upon its release, the card was received as a reliable, if situational, utility land, valued by Commander players who needed a way to manage their board state and extract value from creatures intended for the graveyard.
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