Cabal Pit
Land
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. This land deals 1 damage to you.
Threshold — , , Sacrifice this land: Target creature gets -2/-2 until end of turn. Activate only if there are seven or more cards in your graveyard.
- CMC
- 0
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- The List
- Price
- $0.61
- EDHREC rank
- #6320
Cabal Pit kills a creature without spending a card — pay two life, sacrifice the land, target opponent loses a creature; the cost is real but the effect is free action economy. In shells built around Rowan, Scion of War, that two life is upside, not drawback.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Rowan, Scion of War
Rowan, Scion of War reduces spell costs based on life lost this turn, and Cabal Pit's two-life activation feeds that discount directly — you remove a blocker and charge Rowan's engine in the same motion.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Cabal Pit earns its land slot specifically in black decks that want incidental life payment — Rowan, Scion of War lists being the clearest example — or in sacrifice-matters builds where a land that converts itself into a removal spell has real upside. Outside those archetypes, giving up a land drop for a single-target kill at sorcery speed is a steep ask in a 100-card format. In Legacy and Vintage, Cabal Pit sees virtually no play — faster, cleaner removal is everywhere and a land that enters tapped is a serious tempo penalty at those power levels. Oathbreaker mirrors Commander's logic: the more your commander cares about life loss, the better Cabal Pit looks.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.61 bulk tier
At $0.61, Cabal Pit is bulk — low enough that there's no real financial barrier to picking one up for the right deck. Bulk utility lands with narrow synergy homes tend to stay in this range, so don't expect movement either direction.
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Sources
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.