Scale the Heights
Sorcery
ZNRZendikar Rising#202common
Foil
"Ever onward, ever skyward."
- Border
- black
- Frame
- 2015
- Pull rate
- about 1 per booster–1 in 580
- Illustrator
- Cristi Balanescu
- Found in
- Zendikar Rising Theme Booster Green · Zendikar Rising MTGO Redemption Foil · 5 more
CommanderLegalModernLegalStandardNot legal
Format legality
AlchemyNot legal
BrawlLegal
CommanderLegal
Competitive BrawlLegal
DuelLegal
Future StandardNot legal
GladiatorLegal
HistoricLegal
LegacyLegal
ModernLegal
OathbreakerLegal
Old SchoolNot legal
PauperLegal
Pauper CommanderLegal
PennyNot legal
PioneerLegal
PreDHNot legal
PremodernNot legal
StandardNot legal
Standard BrawlNot legal
TimelessLegal
Tiny LeadersLegal
VintageLegal
Put a +1/+1 counter on up to one target creature. You gain 2 life. You may play an additional land this turn.
Draw a card.
Plays as: Counter Placer · Extra Land Drop
Market · per finishspark updated 4h ago · prices as of 2026-07-12
Nonfoil+18.2%
$0.13
$0.04 low$0.02 gap
Foil+15.0%
$0.23
$0.10 low$0.02 gap
Finish
Market
Δ 7D · Trend
Low
Buylist
Buy / Sell Gap
Nonfoil
$0.13as of 2026-07-12
+18.2%
H $0.18L $0.05since Feb 2024$0.04
$0.02
$0.02+50% · normal spread
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Foil
$0.23as of 2026-07-12
+15.0%
H $0.42L $0.19since Feb 2024$0.10
$0.08
$0.02+20% · normal spread
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Cheapest playable copy$0.13· across 2 printings
Rulings
3 · latest Sep 25, 2020 · one tap opens all
- WotCSep 25, 2020
If you choose a target creature and it’s an illegal target by the time Scale the Heights tries to resolve, the spell doesn’t resolve. You don’t gain life, draw a card, or get to play an additional land.
- WotCSep 25, 2020
The permission to play lands is cumulative with other effects that allow you to play additional lands, such as that of Nahiri’s Lithoforming.
- WotCSep 25, 2020
You don’t play a land as Scale the Heights resolves; Scale the Heights fully resolves first and you draw a card, perhaps including a land you’ll play later. If it’s not your turn, you won’t be able to play a land this turn at all.