First printed in Modern Horizons 3 (2024)

All 4 prints

Star Trek Commander (TRC) #522, 2026
Reality Fracture Commander (FRC) #68, 2026
The List (PLST) #MH3-218, 2026
Modern Horizons 3 (MH3) #218, 2024

Contaminated Landscape

Land

tap : Add Colorless .
tap , Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic Plains, Island, or Swamp card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Cycling White Blue Black (, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

In the last 30 days 2.7% of Pauper decks played it (52 of 1908). Most played in Dimir Control. In the last 30 days 0.1% of Commander decks played it (9 of 6150). Most played in Jace, Multiverse Architect.

In Limited on MTG Arena

Win rates in Arena drafts and sealed, retrieved from 17Lands (CC BY 4.0).

Win rates of Contaminated Landscape in Limited
Set	GIH WR	vs set	IWD	Games
Modern Horizons 3 (MH3), Premier Draft	54.8%	-0.3	+1.9	62313
Modern Horizons 3 (MH3), Sealed	55.0%	-1.1	+2.0	3781

GIH WR: win rate of the games in which the card was in the opening hand or drawn
vs set: points above or below the average win rate of all decks in the set
IWD: improvement when drawn: GIH WR minus the win rate when the card stayed in the library
Games: games in which the card was seen

Staple

Pauper staples: main deck, 3% of decks (#177)
Lands, Card draw, Tutors

Last 120 days of MTGO results and paper tournaments.

Legality

Constructed

Standard Not legal
Pioneer Not legal
Modern Legal
Legacy Legal
Vintage Legal
Pauper Legal
Future Standard Not legal
Historic Legal
Timeless Legal
Alchemy Not legal
Penny Dreadful Not legal
Premodern Not legal
Old School 93/94 Not legal

Singleton

Gladiator Legal

Commander formats

Commander Legal
Duel Commander Legal
Pauper Commander Legal
PreDH Not legal
Tiny Leaders Legal
Oathbreaker Legal
Brawl Legal
Standard Brawl Not legal
Competitive Brawl Legal

In tournament decks of the last 30 days

Meta: share of the archetype in the format
Play it: decks of the archetype that play this card
Together: decks with this card that also play the other one (main deck)
Lift: how much more often than chance: 1 = unrelated, above 1 = played together on purpose

Pauper Other periods →

In 52 of 1908 decks (2.7%).

Share of decks

2.7%

▼ 0.1 vs previous 30 days

Weekly, last 90 days

Decks

52 main, 0 sideboard

Avg. copies

1.7

in the main deck

Win rate

60%

10 top 8 (challenges only)

Archetypes by metagame share

Archetype	Meta	Play it
Dimir Control	13.1%	12%
Jeskai Ephemerate	1.8%	3%
Familiars	1.4%	56%
WUB (unclassified)	0.8%	33%
WU (unclassified)	0.3%	20%

Played together with

Card	Together	Lift
Lórien Revealed	94%	3.4
Baleful Strix	69%	3.6
Cast Down	69%	3.0
Counterspell	63%	2.5
Thorn of the Black Rose	58%	4.4
Contaminated Aquifer	58%	4.2
Snuff Out	58%	3.3
Dispel	56%	3.8
Brainstorm	56%	3.3
Bojuka Bog	56%	2.3

Best win rate

Deck	Record
Dimir Control Eugene Yayloyan in the300	7-1 88%
Dimir Control Harrison Keele in Pauper Regional Qualifier	6-1 86%
Dimir Control Gn42 in Pauper Challenge 32	6-1 86%
Familiars ChaoticMTG in Pauper Challenge 16	7-2 78%
Familiars ChaoticMTG in Pauper Challenge 16	6-2 75%
WUB Antoine Hamelin in the300	6-2 75%
Dimir Control Shmant Shmandrew Shmeklund in From The Vault: Pauper 10 $1K	5-2 71%
Dimir Control Strongmind in Pauper Challenge 32	5-2 71%

Challenges only: MTGO publishes only the 5-0 league decks.

Latest decks

Deck	Copies	Finish
Dimir Control Jinjaa, 28 Oct	1 main	#25 3-3
Dimir Control flower270, 27 Oct	1 main	5-0
Dimir Control barff, 26 Oct	1 main	5-0
Familiars ChaoticMTG, 25 Oct	2 main	#27 3-3
Familiars Burioso, 25 Oct	3 main	5-0
Dimir Control Harrison Keele, 24 Oct	1 main	#1 6-1
Familiars ChaoticMTG, 24 Oct	2 main	#1 6-2
Dimir Control barff, 24 Oct	1 main	5-0

Commander Other periods →

In 9 of 6150 decks (0.1%).