Cinder Barrens
Land
This land enters tapped.
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- CMC
- 0
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BR
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Hour of Devastation
- Price
- $0.12
- EDHREC rank
- #6030
Cinder Barrens enters tapped and produces black or red mana — that's the whole card. In a format where tempo matters, a land that costs you a turn is a real price, and Kardur, Doomscourge decks only run it because the color fixing is genuinely needed, not because it's good.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Kardur, Doomscourge
Kardur, Doomscourge sits in Rakdos, and budget builds lean on Cinder Barrens to smooth out the black-red split when better dual lands aren't in the budget — it's functional, not inspired.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Cinder Barrens is a budget fixing land, and that role is almost exclusively relevant in Commander, where 100-card decks in two or more colors need every dual they can get at low price points. In Pauper it's legal but almost never played — the format's fast enough that a tapped land is a meaningful setback. Legacy, Modern, and Pioneer have far better options at comparable or lower prices, so Cinder Barrens doesn't appear there in practice. Commander is the only format where its floor — enters tapped, makes two colors — is acceptable, and even there it sits at the bottom of the priority list behind any untapped alternative.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.12 bulk tier
At $0.12, Cinder Barrens is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard, not power. It holds that price floor indefinitely because demand is low and supply is enormous, so don't expect it to move in either direction.
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Sources
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.