Blighted Steppe
Land
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, , Sacrifice this land: You gain 2 life for each creature you control.
- CMC
- 0
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Battle for Zendikar
- Price
- $0.15
- EDHREC rank
- #7863
Blighted Steppe trades its land slot for a single life-gain trigger — three mana and a sacrifice to give your whole team lifelink until end of turn. In most decks that's a bad deal, but The Archimandrite turns every point of life gained into a card or a counter, which changes the math entirely.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
The Archimandrite
The Archimandrite converts each lifegain event into tangible advantage, so Blighted Steppe's board-wide lifelink trigger — potentially dozens of points at once — becomes a burst of counters or cards rather than a blank number.
Lathiel, the Bounteous Dawn
Lathiel, the Bounteous Dawn distributes +1/+1 counters at end of turn based on life gained, and Blighted Steppe can spike that total significantly in a single combat step, turning a wide board into a suddenly oversized one.
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 |
Blighted Steppe is a Commander card — full stop. In competitive 60-card formats, tapping for colorless and requiring three mana plus a sacrifice for a one-turn lifelink effect is unplayable when dedicated lifegain payoffs exist alongside far more efficient lands. In Commander, it earns a slot only in decks that have a specific, repeatable payoff for the lifelink trigger itself, not just the life total. Outside of those narrow archetypes, even there it faces stiff competition from utility lands that generate value without costing you a permanent.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.15 bulk tier
At $0.15, Blighted Steppe is deep bulk — you'll find it in any dollar box or thrown into a trade binder for free. The price won't move; demand is too narrow and supply too abundant for that to change.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.