MTG fetch lands, and the budget versions
Last updated: October 7, 2026
A fetch land is a land that sacrifices itself to search your library for another land and put it onto the battlefield. The ten "true" fetches cost 1 life and find any land with one of two basic land types — which includes the dual lands that carry those types — so a single fetch can fix for several colours at once.
The ten fetch lands
Five came in Onslaught and find allied colour pairs; five came in Zendikar and find enemy pairs. All ten have been reprinted since, most recently in the Modern Horizons sets.
- Flooded Strand — finds a white and blue land
- Polluted Delta — finds a blue and black land
- Bloodstained Mire — finds a black and red land
- Wooded Foothills — finds a red and green land
- Windswept Heath — finds a green and white land
- Marsh Flats — finds a white and black land
- Scalding Tarn — finds a blue and red land
- Verdant Catacombs — finds a black and green land
- Arid Mesa — finds a red and white land
- Misty Rainforest — finds a green and blue land
Why they matter
- Fixing. A fetch finds a basic, or a typed dual like a shock land — so one fetch can produce any of several colours.
- Landfall. A fetch is two land drops' worth of triggers for one card. In a landfall deck that is the main reason to play them.
- Shuffling. They shuffle your library, which matters with cards that look at or rearrange the top.
Deck thinning — the idea that removing a land makes future draws better — is real but tiny. It is not a reason to buy a fetch.
The budget fetches
The cheap versions enter tapped or find only a basic, and for most Commander decks that is a small cost. Evolving Wilds and Terramorphic Expanse find any basic. Fabled Passage does the same and untaps once you control four lands. Prismatic Vista finds a basic untapped for 1 life. Myriad Landscape fetches two basics of a shared type, and Ash Barrens can cycle for one.
In a landfall deck these are not compromises — they trigger landfall twice, which is what you wanted. In a deck that just needs colours, a land that taps for two colours on its own is often better than any fetch; see the dual lands guide.
Buying tips
Fetches are reprinted often enough that the newest printing is usually the cheapest. For play, any printing does the same thing — match the printing only if you care about the art or a foil.
Browse every fetch land we stock, our budget utility lands, or price a list in the Deck Builder.