Bristling Backwoods
Bristling Backwoods: Land - Desert, Outlaws of Thunder Junction. This land enters tapped. Printings, market prices, rulings, and format legality on Mana Grove.
- Mana value
- 0
- Type
- Land - Desert
- Colour identity
- Red and green (RG)
- Rarity
- Common
- Set
- Outlaws of Thunder Junction (OTJ)
- Released
- 2024-04-19
- Collector number
- 253
- Artist
- Viko Menezes
- Commander rank
- 3,501 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)
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About Bristling Backwoods
Bristling Backwoods is a Magic: The Gathering card, a common red and green land from Outlaws of Thunder Junction (OTJ), an expansion set released in April 2024. It is collector number 253 in that set, with art by Viko Menezes. As a land, it has no mana cost. Its colour identity is red and green. It is legal in Standard, Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Pauper, Commander, Duel Commander, Oathbreaker, Pauper Commander, Brawl, Standard Brawl, Historic, Timeless and Gladiator. Outlaws of Thunder Junction is its only printing so far. The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $0.27 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-02).
Card text
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, it deals 1 damage to target opponent.
{T}: Add {R} or {G}.
"The cacti have it right. Always carry water." -Pioneer journal of Big Ralph
Market price
Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $0.27 (as of 2026-11-02).
The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.
Format legality
Legality of Bristling Backwoods by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.
| Standard | Legal |
|---|---|
| Pioneer | Legal |
| Modern | Legal |
| Legacy | Legal |
| Vintage | Legal |
| Pauper | Legal |
| Commander | Legal |
| Duel Commander | Legal |
| Oathbreaker | Legal |
| Pauper Commander | Legal |
| Brawl | Legal |
| Standard Brawl | Legal |
| Historic | Legal |
| Timeless | Legal |
| Gladiator | Legal |
Official rulings
One official ruling applies to Bristling Backwoods.
- Desert is a land subtype with no special meaning. It doesn’t grant the land an intrinsic mana ability. Other cards may care about which lands are Deserts.
Similar cards
Other land cards with a red and green colour identity, ranked by how often they appear in Commander decks.
In these precons
Bristling Backwoods is in the decklist of these preconstructed Commander decks.