Bloodfell Caves
Land
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, you gain 1 life.
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- CMC
- 0
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BR
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty
- Price
- $0.17
- EDHREC rank
- #888
Bloodfell Caves enters tapped and replaces itself with one life — a minor tax for guaranteed color fixing in black-red decks. It's not exciting, but in a format where you have 100 cards to hit two colors consistently, Kardur, Doomscourge and every other Rakdos commander runs it without hesitation.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Kardur, Doomscourge
Kardur, Doomscourge is a Rakdos commander that wants to survive long enough to trigger goad payoffs repeatedly, and Bloodfell Caves supplies the black-red mana base that engine demands without costing anything beyond a tempo dip on the turn it enters.
Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls
Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls cares about opponents losing life, so the one-life drain from Bloodfell Caves is a microscopic but genuine on-theme contribution — mostly it's here for the same reason any Rakdos commander runs it: reliable two-color fixing at essentially no monetary cost.
Licia, Sanguine Tribune
Licia, Sanguine Tribune scales her own cost on how much life you've gained, and Bloodfell Caves ticks that counter up by one the turn it enters — small, but Licia lists run every life-gain trigger they can find, and free color fixing that incidentally qualifies is an easy inclusion.
Olivia Voldaren
Olivia Voldaren needs both black and red mana active at the same time to threaten her activated abilities, and Bloodfell Caves is one of the cheapest ways to guarantee that fixing shows up in every game.
Raphael, Fiendish Savior
Raphael, Fiendish Savior wants a smooth black-red mana base to deploy Demons and Vampires on curve, and Bloodfell Caves fills that role at bulk-rare pricing without competing for a spell slot.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Bloodfell Caves does its real work — 100-card singleton decks are punished by color inconsistency, and any Rakdos build that can't afford Godless Shrine or Blood Crypt turns to budget taplands like this one to round out the mana base. In Pauper, the card is legal and occasionally appears in two-color midrange shells that need cheap fixing, though the format's faster pace makes the enters-tapped clause hurt more. Across Pioneer, Modern, and Legacy, Bloodfell Caves is legal but essentially unused — constructed formats demand untapped lands, and anything slower than a Shockland is a liability at those speeds.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.17 bulk tier
At $0.17, Bloodfell Caves is deep bulk — you'll find it in bulk boxes and draft chaff piles, not on anyone's buylist. That price is stable by definition: there's no downward pressure left to apply, and demand from Commander players who can't find a cheaper Rakdos tapland keeps it from hitting zero.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Kardur, Doomscourge
- Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls
- Licia, Sanguine Tribune
- Olivia Voldaren
- Raphael, Fiendish Savior
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.