Cinder Glade
Land — Mountain Forest
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This land enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.
- CMC
- 0
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- GR
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Fallout
- Price
- $0.34
- EDHREC rank
- #85
Cinder Glade enters untapped as long as you control two or more basics, which in a typical Commander manabase means it functions as a dual land from turn three onward at zero cost. Leonardo, the Balance // Michelangelo, the Heart and any Gruul or five-color build that leans on basics should run it without debate.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Leonardo, the Balance // Michelangelo, the Heart
Leonardo, the Balance // Michelangelo, the Heart appears in Temur and four-color shells that mix basics with a few dual lands, and Cinder Glade slots in as an untapped red-green source that doesn't ask for a fetchland to activate it.
Ureni of the Unwritten
Ureni of the Unwritten builds around a basic-heavy manabase to support landfall and land-synergy payoffs, making Cinder Glade a reliable untapped dual that doesn't dilute the basic count enough to matter.
Dogmeat, Ever Loyal
Dogmeat, Ever Loyal runs Jund colors and tends toward a manabase dense with basics, so Cinder Glade fills the red-green slot without the premium price of a fetchable dual.
The Swarmlord
The Swarmlord sits in Golgari but splashes into adjacent three-color builds where Cinder Glade covers the green-red fixing at essentially no cost to the land slot.
Hearthhull, the Worldseed
Hearthhull, the Worldseed runs green-heavy multicolor lists where basics dominate and every untapped dual is a free inclusion — Cinder Glade checks that box at bulk pricing.
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 |
Commander is where Cinder Glade does its best work: the singleton format naturally pushes decks toward basics, so the two-basic threshold for entering untapped is consistently met by turn three or earlier. In Modern and Pioneer, shock lands and fetch lands are the default dual of choice, and Cinder Glade rarely displaces them because the format's faster pace punishes a tapped land in the early turns before basics accumulate. Legacy has access to original dual lands, which makes Cinder Glade redundant in any shell that can afford them. Oathbreaker mirrors Commander's logic closely enough that the same basic-heavy manabase argument applies.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.34 bulk tier
At $0.34, Cinder Glade is firmly bulk — you're paying almost nothing for a land that performs well above its price tier in Commander. Bulk dual lands rarely spike unless a reprint demand dries up, so treat it as a cheap pickup rather than a hold.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Leonardo, the Balance // Michelangelo, the Heart
- Ureni of the Unwritten
- Dogmeat, Ever Loyal
- The Swarmlord
- Hearthhull, the Worldseed
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.