Crawling Barrens
Crawling Barrens: Land, Zendikar Rising. Tap: Add Colorless. 4: Put two +1/+1 counters on this land. Printings, prices, and format legality on Mana Grove.
- Mana value
- 0
- Type
- Land
- Colour identity
- Colourless
- Rarity
- Rare
- Set
- Zendikar Rising (ZNR)
- Released
- 2020-09-25
- Collector number
- 262
- Artist
- Jonas De Ro
- Commander rank
- 6,454 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)
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About Crawling Barrens
Crawling Barrens is a Magic: The Gathering card, a rare colourless land from Zendikar Rising (ZNR), an expansion set released in September 2020. It is collector number 262 in that set, with art by Jonas De Ro. As a land, it has no mana cost. It has no colour identity. It is legal in Standard, Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander, Oathbreaker, Brawl, Standard Brawl, Historic, Timeless, Alchemy, Gladiator and Penny Dreadful. It has been printed in 4 sets, from Zendikar Rising (2020) to Foundations (2024). The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $0.29 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-01).
Card text
{T}: Add {C}.
{4}: Put two +1/+1 counters on this land. Then you may have it become a 0/0 Elemental creature until end of turn. It's still a land.
Zendikar is restless.
Market price
Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $0.29 (as of 2026-11-01).
The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.
Format legality
Legality of Crawling Barrens by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.
| Standard | Legal |
|---|---|
| Pioneer | Legal |
| Modern | Legal |
| Legacy | Legal |
| Vintage | Legal |
| Commander | Legal |
| Duel Commander | Legal |
| Oathbreaker | Legal |
| Brawl | Legal |
| Standard Brawl | Legal |
| Historic | Legal |
| Timeless | Legal |
| Alchemy | Legal |
| Gladiator | Legal |
| Penny Dreadful | Legal |
Other printings of Crawling Barrens
Crawling Barrens has been printed in 4 sets. The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.
| Printing | Rarity | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Foundations (FDN) #685 | Rare | 2024 |
| Magic Online Promos (PRM) #83732 | Rare | 2020 |
| Zendikar Rising Promos (PZNR) #262p | Rare | 2020 |
| Zendikar Rising Promos (PZNR) #262s | Rare | 2020 |
| Zendikar Rising (ZNR) #378 | Rare | 2020 |
Official rulings
Four official rulings apply to Crawling Barrens, newest first.
- Counters on Crawling Barrens remain on it when it stops being a creature. If it becomes a creature later, they'll apply to it.
- You can activate Crawling Barrens's second ability even if it's already a creature.
- If this becomes a creature but you haven't controlled it continuously since your most recent turn began, you won't be able to activate its mana ability or attack with it that turn.
- Unless Crawling Barrens is already a creature, its second ability causes the +1/+1 counters to be put onto a noncreature land. Abilities that apply or trigger when counters are put on a creature you control won't do so.
Similar cards
Other land cards with no colour identity, ranked by how often they appear in Commander decks.
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