---
name: "Natural Balance"
mana_cost: "{2}{G}{G}"
cmc: 4
type_line: "Sorcery"
colors: ["G"]
color_identity: ["G"]
keywords: []
set: "MIR"
set_name: "Mirage"
collector_number: "231"
rarity: "rare"
artist: "John Malloy"
oracle_id: "69acaa6f-3ba2-420c-9069-02958f844121"
canonical_url: "https://avascry.com/printing/natural-balance-mir"
legalities:
  commander: "legal"
  standard: "not_legal"
  modern: "not_legal"
  pioneer: "not_legal"
  legacy: "legal"
  vintage: "legal"
  pauper: "not_legal"
  penny: "not_legal"
---

# Natural Balance
- **Mana Cost:** `{2}{G}{G}` (CMC: 4)
- **Type:** Sorcery

## Oracle Text
Each player who controls six or more lands chooses five lands they control and sacrifices the rest. Each player who controls four or fewer lands may search their library for up to X basic land cards and put them onto the battlefield, where X is five minus the number of lands they control. Then each player who searched their library this way shuffles.

## Top 4096-Dim Neural Synergies
1. [Balance](/printing/balance-olep.md) — Sorcery
2. [Gaea's Balance](/printing/gaeas-balance-apc.md) — Sorcery
3. [Boundless Realms](/printing/boundless-realms-plst.md) — Sorcery
4. [Restore Balance](/printing/restore-balance-tsr.md) — Sorcery
5. [Magus of the Balance](/printing/magus-of-the-balance-pz2.md) — Creature — Human Wizard
6. [Planar Engineering](/printing/planar-engineering-psos.md) — Sorcery

## Printing Details
- **Set:** Mirage (MIR) #231
- **Rarity:** Rare
- **Artist:** John Malloy
- **Total Printings:** 9 across all historical editions

## Format Legalities
Commander: `legal` | Standard: `not_legal` | Modern: `not_legal` | Pioneer: `not_legal` | Legacy: `legal` | Vintage: `legal` | Pauper: `not_legal` | Penny: `not_legal`