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Cryptic Caves

Land MV 0

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What it does

T: Add .

1, T, Sacrifice this land: Draw a card. Activate only if you control five or more lands.

Combos with Cryptic Caves

Lines this card is part of — what it needs alongside it, and what the two of them do. An infinite result is the one that moves a deck's bracket.

  • Squandered Resources Summer Bloom Mystic Sanctuary Crucible of Worlds Infinite
    • Infinite draw triggers
    • Infinite landfall triggers
    • Infinite magecraft triggers
    • Infinite mana lands you control can produce
    • Infinite storm count
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Squandered Resources Summer Bloom Mystic Sanctuary Ramunap Excavator Infinite
    • Infinite draw triggers
    • Infinite landfall triggers
    • Infinite magecraft triggers
    • Infinite mana lands you control can produce
    • Infinite storm count
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Squandered Resources Summer Bloom Mystic Sanctuary Ancient Greenwarden Infinite
    • Infinite draw triggers
    • Infinite landfall triggers
    • Infinite magecraft triggers
    • Infinite mana lands you control can produce
    • Infinite storm count
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →

Combo data from Commander Spellbook, the community-maintained database of Magic combos. Mirrored nightly.

Rulings

2 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.

  • 2019-07-12

    Cryptic Caves can be one of the five lands you control. You don't need to control five other lands. It's okay that you'll only control four lands as you finish activating Cryptic Caves's last ability.

  • 2019-07-12

    If you control two Cryptic Caves and exactly three other lands, you can activate the last ability of only one of the Cryptic Caves. As soon as the cost for that ability is paid, you will no longer control enough lands to activate the ability of the second Cryptic Caves.

Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.

In the 99

Every deck whose current list includes Cryptic Caves, whatever its commander.

Decks running it 1
Games played 0
Win rate — Fewer than 5 completed games — not enough to publish a rate yet.
Confirmed on board 0 Games where a board photo caught it actually in play.

Most played under

Commander Decks Games Win rate
Sami, Wildcat Captain 1 0 —

Colors it shows up in

  • Boros 1 deck

Every version of Cryptic Caves

5 printings, newest first. Prices are the market figures Scryfall publishes, refreshed nightly — a printing with no figure shows a dash rather than a zero, because Scryfall genuinely publishes none for some of them.

Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Cryptic Caves — a name search across every version, for the printings TCGplayer publishes no direct link to.

Aggregated from Commander games tracked in TurnZero HQ. Every figure counts decks and games only — no individual deck list, player or playgroup is identified. Win rates are withheld below 5 completed games, where the sample is too small to mean anything.