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Adarkar Wastes
Price$0.30 – $25.33
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Adarkar Wastes

Land

LegalRank #159

{T}: Add {C}.

{T}: Add {W} or {U}. This land deals 1 damage to you.

Why is this card good?

Adarkar Wastes is a premium dual land for any Azorius (UW) deck, and one of the most underrated fixing options in the format. The reason it's so good: it enters untapped, always, with no conditions, no basic-type requirement, and no payment hoops. In a format defined by 100-card singleton consistency and the need to curve out reliably, untapped fixing is gold. The 1 damage is a near-nonissue in Commander. Starting at 40 life with no clock pressure most games, pinging yourself for color is trivial — and you can always tap it for colorless {C} when you don't need the color, avoiding the damage entirely. It fits any UW deck: control, flicker/blink, tokens, stax, or as part of a Bant/Esper/Jeskai manabase. Pair it with the rest of the Coldsnap/Ice Age "painland" cycle. When not to play it: aggressive low-life-total strategies (rare in EDH), or budget decks where you'd rather run cheaper taplands — but honestly, it's almost always worth it.

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Printings (23)

eocEdge of Eternities Commander · #147R$0.33Buy
plstThe List · #M3C-316R$0.53Buy
tdcTarkir: Dragonstorm Commander · #338R$0.30Buy
drcAetherdrift Commander · #144R$0.38Buy
dscDuskmourn: House of Horror Commander · #258R$0.35Buy
blcBloomburrow Commander · #291R$0.38Buy
m3cModern Horizons 3 Commander · #316R$0.36Buy
pdmuDominaria United Promos · #243sR$4.16Buy
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dmuDominaria United · #243R$1.42Buy
pdmuDominaria United Promos · #243pR$1.86Buy
dmuDominaria United · #377R$2.14Buy
10eTenth Edition · #347R$5.88Buy
9edNinth Edition · #317★R$39.63Buy
9edNinth Edition · #317R$4.13Buy
7edSeventh Edition · #325R$8.74Buy
7edSeventh Edition · #325★R$1000.00Buy
wc00World Championship Decks 2000 · #tvdl319R$5.42Buy
6edClassic Sixth Edition · #319R$6.44Buy
olepOversized League Prizes · #26R—Buy
5edFifth Edition · #410R$4.98Buy
ptcPro Tour Collector Set · #ml351R$7.69Buy
ptcPro Tour Collector Set · #shr351R$7.00Buy
iceIce Age · #351R$25.33Buy

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