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What are the best budget lands for Commander?
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Best budget Commander lands: Command Tower ($1), Exotic Orchard ($2), Path of Ancestry ($1), Reliquary Tower ($1), and Bojuka Bog ($2). Add check lands ($3-5) and pain lands ($5-10) as budget allows. Skip fetches and shocks until $250+ manabase budget.
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Why the answer is what it is
You can build a great 37-land Commander manabase for under $30. The trick is prioritizing tapped duals with all three basic types (check lands, refuges) over expensive shocks.
Below the shock tier, check lands ($3-5) offer the best fixing per dollar. They enter untapped 90%+ of the time if you have basics, and they're routinely reprinted so prices stay low.
- ◆Command Tower ($1) - auto-include
- ◆Exotic Orchard ($2) - rainbow in group play
- ◆Path of Ancestry ($1) - tribal scry
- ◆Bojuka Bog ($2) - free graveyard hate (B decks)
- ◆Reliquary Tower ($1) - no hand size limit
- ◆Check lands (Dragonskull Summit etc.) - $3-5
- ◆Pain lands (Adarkar Wastes etc.) - $5-10
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