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Blasted Landscape

Land

{T}: Add {C}.
Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

CMC
0
Mana cost
Color identity
C
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Commander 2015
Price
$1.44
EDHREC rank
#5185
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Blasted Landscape card art
Blasted Landscape cycles for colorless mana, which sounds minor until Escape Protocol is on the board and every cycled land becomes a free blink trigger. In Gavi, Nest Warden decks specifically, the first cycle each turn costs nothing, making this a free land that also fuels the engine — that combination is why it slots into nearly half of all Gavi lists.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Gavi, Nest Warden

Gavi, Nest Warden

45.5% of decks · synergy 0.45

Gavi, Nest Warden makes the first cycle each turn free, so Blasted Landscape becomes a zero-cost land that simultaneously advances your hand, triggers Gavi's token production, and powers any Escape Protocol blink loops you have assembled.

02
Sharuum the Hegemon

Sharuum the Hegemon

16.4% of decks · synergy 0.16

Blasted Landscape shows up in Sharuum the Hegemon lists primarily as a utility land — colorless-heavy artifact decks can cycle it to dig for combo pieces without sacrificing a land slot to a blank card.

03
Traxos, Scourge of Kroog

Traxos, Scourge of Kroog

21.2% of decks · synergy 0.11

Traxos, Scourge of Kroog untaps whenever you cast a historic spell, and historic includes artifacts, so Blasted Landscape's cycle acts as cheap card selection that keeps the engine churning without costing a spell slot.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern not legal
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Blasted Landscape is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, and that's where it lives — it's not legal in Modern, Pioneer, Standard, or Pauper, so the competitive constructed conversation is short. In Commander it earns its slot almost exclusively in cycling-matters and historic-matters shells; outside those strategies it's a slow, colorless land that most decks won't want. Legacy and Vintage have access to far more efficient utility lands, so Blasted Landscape never sees meaningful play there. Oathbreaker mirrors Commander in the relevant ways — if your planeswalker and signature spell want cycling fuel, it's fine; otherwise skip it.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$1.44 cheap tier

At $1.44, Blasted Landscape sits comfortably in the cheap tier — low enough that budget is never the reason to exclude it. Demand is narrow enough that the price is unlikely to spike outside a major cycling-matters reprint or new commander, so you're buying a stable, low-cost role-player.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.