First printed in Battle for Zendikar (2015)
All 8 prints
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Edge of Eternities: Stellar Sights (EOS) #128, 2025
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Edge of Eternities: Stellar Sights (EOS) #173, 2025
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Edge of Eternities: Stellar Sights (EOS) #38, 2025
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Edge of Eternities: Stellar Sights (EOS) #83, 2025
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Pioneer Masters (PIO) #275, 2024 (digital)
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Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate (CLB) #914, 2022
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Battle for Zendikar (BFZ) #244, 2015
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Battle for Zendikar Promos (PBFZ) #244s, 2015
Shambling Vent
Land
This land enters tapped.
: Add 
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: Until end of turn, this land becomes a 2/3 white and black Elemental creature with lifelink. It's still a land.
- Illustrated by
- Jung Park
Legality
- Legal in
- Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Historic, Timeless, Penny Dreadful, Gladiator, Commander, Duel Commander, Tiny Leaders, Oathbreaker, Brawl, Competitive Brawl
- Not legal in
- Standard, Pauper, Future Standard, Alchemy, Premodern, Old School 93/94, Pauper Commander, PreDH, Standard Brawl
Rulings (5)
- An ability that turns a land into a creature also sets that creature's power and toughness. If the land was already a creature (for example, if it was the target of a spell with awaken), this will overwrite the previous effect that set its power and toughness. Effects that modify its power or toughness will continue to apply no matter when they started to take effect. The same is true for counters that change its power or toughness (such as +1/+1 counters) and effects that switch its power and toughness. For example, if Shambling Vent has been made a 0/0 creature with three +1/+1 counters on it, activating its last ability will turn it into a 5/6 creature that's still a land.
- Multiple instances of lifelink on the same creature are redundant. Activating the last ability more than once won't cause you to gain additional life if Shambling Vent deals damage.
- This land is colorless until the last ability gives it colors.
- When a land becomes a creature, that doesn't count as having a creature enter the battlefield. The permanent was already on the battlefield; it only changed its types. Abilities that trigger whenever a creature enters the battlefield won't trigger.
- A land that becomes a creature may be affected by "summoning sickness." You can't attack with it or use any of its abilities (including its mana abilities) unless it began your most recent turn on the battlefield under your control. Note that summoning sickness cares about when that permanent came under your control, not when it became a creature nor when it entered the battlefield.
Prices
MTGO price: 0.006 TIX, the cheapest non-foil print (average sell price on GoatBots, 29 Oct 2026).
In Limited on MTG Arena
Win rates in Arena drafts and sealed, retrieved from 17Lands (CC BY 4.0).
| Set | GIH WR | vs set | IWD | Games |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Edge of Eternities (EOE), Premier Draft | 58.3% | +3.0 | +4.5 | 1846 |
| Pioneer Masters (PIO), Premier Draft | 57.6% | +2.3 | +5.4 | 2790 |
- 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