Price$3.43 – $28.79
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As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a land.
Search your library for a land card, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Why is this card good?
Crop Rotation is a one-mana, instant-speed tutor that puts any land directly onto the battlefield. That speed and price are why it's a Game Changer — you're effectively paying plus a worse land to fetch your best land at the perfect moment.
The card lives and dies by your land targets. It's exceptional in decks built around a single powerful land:
- Combo lands: Cabal Coffers + Coffers payoff, Gaea's Cradle, Dark Depths/Thespian's Stage, or a Field of the Dead engine.
- Lab Maniac / Thassa's Oracle shells that need a specific utility land like Boseiju or a value land at instant speed.
- Reanimator/landfall decks that want to flash in a key piece.
Crucially, you usually fix the card disadvantage by sacrificing a fetchland or a land you're done with.
Don't run it in vanilla goodstuff decks with no standout target — fetching a basic for one mana plus a land is a bad rate. It needs a reason: a singleton land that wins or enables the game.
plus a worse land to fetch your best land at the perfect moment.
The card lives and dies by your land targets. It's exceptional in decks built around a single powerful land:
- Combo lands: Cabal Coffers + Coffers payoff, Gaea's Cradle, Dark Depths/Thespian's Stage, or a Field of the Dead engine.
- Lab Maniac / Thassa's Oracle shells that need a specific utility land like Boseiju or a value land at instant speed.
- Reanimator/landfall decks that want to flash in a key piece.
Crucially, you usually fix the card disadvantage by sacrificing a fetchland or a land you're done with.
Don't run it in vanilla goodstuff decks with no standout target — fetching a basic for one mana plus a land is a bad rate. It needs a reason: a singleton land that wins or enables the game.Related cards
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Printings (15)
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Rulings (1)
- 2022-12-08
You can’t cast Crop Rotation without sacrificing a land, and you can’t sacrifice additional lands.