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Festering Gulch OTJ 0257 · common

Festering Gulch · Land — Desert · This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, it deals 1 damage to target opponent.
{T}: Add {B} or {G}. · "Lost a boot in the muck. Get the feeling I'm lucky I got to keep the leg."
—Pioneer journal of Big Ralph

Festering Gulch · Land — Desert · This land enters tapped. When this land enters, it deals 1 damage to target opponent. {T}: Add {B} or {G}. · "Lost a boot in the muck. Get the feeling I'm lucky I got to keep the leg." —Pioneer journal of Big Ralph

Price
from $0.311 printing
Win rate
56.2% GIH 90,440 instances · Premier Draft
Apr 16–May 27, 2024 · 17Lands

Game-in-hand win rate, all deck colors. 50,828 wins in 90,440 card-in-hand instances.

87,704 distinct games · 31,938 distinct drafts · games recorded Apr 16–May 27, 2024.

17Lands file dated May 30, 2024 · 100-instance minimum · 17Lands public data ↗

Draft data

56.2%when drawn (GIH)

+2.1 pp vs 54.1% average · 90,440 instances

Premier Draft · Apr 16–May 27, 2024 · average from 1,172,393 games

Land · compared with other lands below · last seen around pick 4.4 on average (164,015 packs).

2 of 30 land cards.

Taken at pick5.941,292 picks
Makes the deck83.3%41,292 picks with known usage
When played55.2%186,596.2 matchesBenched 55.0%
26,335.8 matches
When drawn56.2%90,440 instances

Pick and maindeck observations: Apr 16–May 27, 2024. Played/benched cells use matches when available; the drawn cell uses game instances.

○ Opening hand 57.2% · 40,102 instances
● Drawn later 55.4% · 50,338 instances

In hand 56.2% · 90,440 instances
Unseen in deck 53.7% · 119,949 instances
+2.5 percentage points when drawn

Compared with land cards

Win rate when drawn56.2%90,440 instances2 of 30
Opening hand57.2%40,102 instances3 of 30
Drawn later55.4%50,338 instances4 of 30
In the deck55.1%218,709 instances5 of 30
Without seeing it53.7%119,949 instances13 of 30
Improvement when drawn+2.5 pp90,440 instances / 119,949 instances5 of 30
When benched55.0%26,335.8 matches6 of 30
Makes the deck83.3%41,292 picks with known usage6 of 30
Pick (last seen)4.4164,015 packs11 of 30
Taken at5.941,292 picks7 of 30

Ranks require 100 observations for that metric; comparisons are descriptive, not a pick order. Pick ranks put earlier picks first.

Best decks for it

no-splash decks only · card-level in-hand rates · 100 minimum

Green–White GW59.9%1,386 instancesBlue–Black UB58.1%2,276 instancesBlack–Green BG58.0%9,195 instancesWhite–Black WB57.8%888 instancesBlue–Green UG57.3% ◌485 instancesRed–Green RG55.2%572 instancesBlack–Red BR53.1%1,210 instancesRed–White RW100.0%1 instances · under 100White–Blue WU75.0%8 instances · under 100

Each tick is this card’s all-decks rate (56.2% · 90,440 instances). A high card rate does not prove that splashing it will improve your deck.

Card partners need a verified analysis of this format’s public game file.

17Lands public datasets ↗ · CC BY 4.0 ↗ · Apr 16–May 27, 2024

Collect

1 printingScryfall USD, snapshot Oct 25Pack odds →

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Prices

OTJ 0257 · Regular printingListings ↗
FinishFound inPrice
NonfoilPlay Booster$0.35
FoilCollector Booster · Play Booster$0.31

Foil in a Collector Booster · Modeled · About 1 in 23 packs (4.40%) · 41.7% per display · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →

Foil in a Play Booster · Modeled · About 1 in 100 packs (1.00%) · 30.4% per display · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →

Nonfoil in a Play Booster · Modeled · About 1 in 25 packs (4.00%) · 77.0% per display · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →

How to pull it

Official rates for the whole category, not this card.

BoosterSlotPer packCategory
Play BoosterLand80%Land · nonfoil
Play BoosterLand20%Land · foil
Collector BoosterTraditional foil commons100% per positionTraditional foil commons

Wizards · Collecting Outlaws of Thunder Junction ↗ · Oct 29, 2026

Details & sources

Legal in
Standard · Historic · Timeless · Pioneer · Modern · Legacy · Pauper · Vintage · CommanderLimited eligibility depends on the event and its booster pool.
Illustration
Daniel Romanovsky, OTJ 257 · Scryfall ↗
More like this
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Sources
Wizards · Collecting Outlaws of Thunder Junction · Oct 29, 2026
Scryfall USD, snapshot Oct 25
Comprehensive Rules ↗