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Land Tax

First printed in Legends (1994)

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Land Tax

Enchantment

At the beginning of your upkeep, if an opponent controls more lands than you, you may search your library for up to three basic land cards, reveal them, put them into your hand, then shuffle.

Illustrated by
Brian Snõddy

Legality

Rulings (3)

  • You can fetch any of the "Snow-Covered" lands, since they all also have the supertype basic.
  • This ability has an "intervening 'if' clause." That means (1) the ability won't trigger at all unless any one of your opponents controls more lands than you, and (2) the ability will do nothing if you control at least as many lands as each of your opponents by the time it resolves.
  • You shuffle your library if you search, even if you don't put any basic land cards into your hand.

Prices

MTGO price: 1.65 TIX, the cheapest non-foil print (average sell price on GoatBots, 1 Nov 2026).

In Limited on MTG Arena

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

Win rates of Land Tax in Limited
Set GIH WR vs set IWD Games
Wilds of Eldraine (WOE), Premier Draft 55.3% +0.1 +2.9 1462
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

Commander In 31 of 6520 decks (0.5%), most in Dack Fayden, Helping Hand

Share of decks
0.5%
▲ 0.2 vs previous 30 days
2026-08-17: 0.6% 2026-08-24: 0.2% 2026-08-31: 0.3% 2026-09-07: 0.6% 2026-09-14: 0.2% 2026-09-21: 0.2% 2026-09-28: 0.4% 2026-10-05: 0.4% 2026-10-12: 0.3% 2026-10-19: 0.5% 2026-10-26: 1.0%
Weekly, last 90 days
Decks
31
31 main, 0 sideboard
Avg. copies
1.0
in the main deck
Win rate
30%
6 top 8 (challenges only)

Archetypes by metagame share

Archetype Meta Play it
Dack Fayden, Helping Hand 1.4% 12%
Niv-Mizzet, Ghost Counsel 0.1% 14%
Sythis, Harvest's Hand 0.1% 33%
Ellivere of the Wild Court 0.1% 40%
Ratadrabik of Urborg 0.1% 20%
The Queen of Dale 0.1% 20%
Heliod, Sun-Crowned 0.1% 75%
Killian, Decisive Mentor 0.1% 75%

Played together with

Card Together Lift
Sol Ring94%1.0
Swords to Plowshares90%4.8
Lotus Petal81%0.9
Enlightened Tutor77%1.8
Chrome Mox77%0.8
Silence74%1.6
Gemstone Caverns74%0.8
Ancient Tomb71%0.8
Orim's Chant65%2.8
Gleaming Splendor65%2.0

Best win rate

DeckRecord
Dack Fayden, Helping Hand
Kelsie Ricard [TILT] in Mulligan Championship Series - October w/ Guaranteed Volcanic Island
2-3
40%
Heliod, Sun-Crowned
Jack Field in Perfect Storm Comics & Games - Tabernacle 10K
1-4
20%

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

Latest decks

DeckCopiesFinish
Sythis, Harvest's Hand
Maxwell Chou,
1 main #25
of 25
0-3
Dack Fayden, Helping Hand
EDHsenpai [BAD],
1 main #11
of 74
2-2
Dack Fayden, Helping Hand
Kelsie Ricard [TILT],
1 main #51
of 74
0-3
Ratadrabik of Urborg
Danilo,
1 main #1 (top 8)
of 17
2-1
Light-Paws, Emperor's Voice
Edward C ELMORE,
1 main #67
of 105
0-4
Dack Fayden, Helping Hand
Clayton Taylor,
1 main #14
of 65
1-2
Killian, Decisive Mentor
Daniel Rodríguez,
1 main #28
of 28
0-2
Sythis, Harvest's Hand
James stratton,
1 main #7 (top 8)
of 39
2-2