Burning Fields
Sorcery
Burning Fields deals 5 damage to target opponent or planeswalker.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Portal Three Kingdoms
- Price
- $2.93
- EDHREC rank
- #29611
Burning Fields hits every opponent's land base simultaneously — the kind of symmetry-breaking punishment that ends games when you're ahead on mana. It's a narrow card, but in the decks that want it, it does exactly one brutal thing and does it well.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Burning Fields is a Commander card through and through — the multiplayer table is where hitting three opponents' lands at once goes from situational to backbreaking. In Legacy and Vintage it's legal but competes with a century of efficient land destruction that doesn't cost five mana. Pauper is the one non-Commander format worth a look, where the card pool is shallow enough that Burning Fields can punch above its weight in slower games.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$2.93 cheap tier
At $2.93, Burning Fields sits in the cheap tier — low enough to pick up without deliberation if the effect fits your strategy. It's a niche card, so don't expect the price to move much in either direction.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.