Price$0.31 – $0.37
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Land
LegalRank #708
When this land enters, sacrifice it. When you do, search your library for a basic Swamp, Mountain, or Forest card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle and you gain 1 life.
Why is this card good?
Riveteers Overlook is a Jund-colored "panorama"-style fetch that thins your deck while fixing for Black, Red, or Green. It's a slow but reliable mana fixer that triggers landfall and shuffle effects on the way out.
Why play it: In three-color Jund decks (or any subset of BRG), it guarantees you the basic you need next turn, and the deck-thinning marginally improves your draws. The shuffle is relevant for scry/Sensei's Top setups, and it pings landfall payloads like Lotus Cobra or fetch-based combos. The incidental lifegain is trivial but real.
Who wants it: Budget or casual Jund/Gruul/Golgari manabases that lean on basics, plus decks abusing landfall or shuffle triggers. Lands-matter and constellation-adjacent strategies appreciate the extra trigger.
When to skip it: It enters tapped and fetches tapped — that's effectively two turns of lost tempo. Competitive or fast decks, and nonbasic-heavy manabases (Triomes, duals), should run untapped fixing instead. Only run it where the thinning and triggers matter more than speed.
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Printings (4)
Played by these commanders
Disa the Restless100% of 2
Auntie Ool, Cursewretch100% of 1
Henzie "Toolbox" Torre100% of 1
Hearthhull, the Worldseed100% of 1
Combos (6)
- Retreat to Emeria + Haru, Hidden Talent + Riveteers Overlook
→ Infinite ETB, Infinite lifegain triggers, Infinite lifegain
- Scaretiller + Retreat to Coralhelm + Riveteers Overlook
→ Near-infinite landfall triggers, Near-infinite lifegain, Near-infinite lifegain triggers
- Toggo, Goblin Weaponsmith + Scaretiller + Clock of Omens + Riveteers Overlook
→ Infinite landfall triggers, Infinite tapped Rock tokens, Put all basic Swamps, Forests, and Mountains from your library onto the battlefield tapped
- Ashaya, Soul of the Wild + Stone-Seeder Hierophant + Scaretiller + Riveteers Overlook
→ Near-infinite landfall triggers, Near-infinite lifegain, Near-infinite lifegain triggers
- Scaretiller + Voltaic Construct + Paradise Mantle + Illusionist's Bracers + Riveteers Overlook
→ Infinite landfall triggers, Put all basic Swamps, Forests, and Mountains from your library onto the battlefield
- Scaretiller + Cacophodon + Viridian Longbow + Roaring Earth + Riveteers Overlook
→ Infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature, Infinite landfall triggers, Put all basic Swamps, Forests, and Mountains from your library onto the battlefield