Blast Zone
Land
This land enters with a charge counter on it.
: Add 
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, : Put X charge counters on this land.
, , Sacrifice this land: Destroy each nonland permanent with mana value equal to the number of charge counters on this land.
- CMC
- 0
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Magic Online Promos
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #1577
Blast Zone is a colorless board wipe on a land — it answers tokens, stax pieces, and enchantment clusters without spending a card slot on a spell. The cost is real: it enters tapped with one charge counter, so it can't hit one-drops immediately and requires advance planning to threaten specific mana values. Omo, Queen of Vesuva can accelerate counters onto it, which is the clearest reason to prioritize it in certain builds.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Omo, Queen of Vesuva
Omo, Queen of Vesuva puts counters on permanents as a core function, and Blast Zone directly benefits — stacking charge counters faster means you can threaten higher mana values without waiting multiple turns. The synergy is tight enough that Blast Zone shows up in nearly a third of all Omo decks.
Xolatoyac, the Smiling Flood
Xolatoyac, the Smiling Flood cares about permanents with counters, and Blast Zone feeds that engine while doubling as an answer to symmetrical threats. The counter-accumulation synergy is the pull here, not just the removal mode.
Zhulodok, Void Gorger
Zhulodok, Void Gorger is a colorless commander that needs colorless utility at every step, and Blast Zone is one of the few lands that provides removal without touching the color pie. It showing up in over half of Zhulodok decks reflects how thin colorless removal options are.
Yawgmoth, Thran Physician
Yawgmoth, Thran Physician decks proliferate constantly, and proliferating charge counters onto Blast Zone compresses the timeline for a sweeper dramatically. It's a natural fit in any Yawgmoth shell running the proliferate subtheme.
Tekuthal, Inquiry Dominus
Tekuthal, Inquiry Dominus doubles every proliferate trigger, which means Blast Zone can stack counters at a pace that's genuinely threatening within two or three turns. That speed turns a slow, telegraphed land into a credible mid-game reset.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Blast Zone occupies a unique slot: it's a board wipe that doesn't count against your spell budget, which matters in decks that need to fit removal into a 99 already stretched across ramp, draw, and threats. It shines hardest against token strategies and identical-CMC permanents like Smothering Tithe or Rhystic Study clusters, and any commander that interacts with counters turns it from a slow threat into a fast one. In Modern and Legacy, it has seen play as a colorless answer to Chalice of the Void on zero — setting Blast Zone to zero nukes Chalice without requiring colored mana, which is a meaningful niche in prison matchups. Pioneer offers similar logic at a slower pace, where its role as a clean answer to permanents at a specific mana cost gives midrange and control decks a land-slot removal option. Blast Zone is not legal in Standard or Pauper, but it's available across Vintage, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Commander, and Oathbreaker — broad enough that most players looking for it can play it.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
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Pricing data for Blast Zone isn't available in this snapshot, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for current buylist and market price. As a utility land with cross-format play in Commander, Modern, and Legacy, it tends to hold value steadily rather than spiking or bottoming out sharply.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.