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Darksteel Citadel

Artifact Land

Indestructible
{T}: Add {C}.

CMC
0
Mana cost
Color identity
C
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Commander Anthology Volume II
Price
$1.45
EDHREC rank
#287
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Darksteel Citadel card art
Darksteel Citadel is an indestructible artifact land that produces colorless mana for free — the cost is exactly that: it only taps for colorless, which matters in three- and four-color builds. Artifact-matters commanders like Chiss-Goria, Forge Tyrant treat it as a free artifact count, and recursion engines like Tameshi, Reality Architect love that it survives the board wipes meant to stop them.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Chiss-Goria, Forge Tyrant

Chiss-Goria, Forge Tyrant

88.6% of decks · synergy 0.82

Chiss-Goria, Forge Tyrant's affinity ability counts every artifact on the battlefield, so Darksteel Citadel is a free artifact that also taps for mana — it's one of the few lands that directly accelerates Chiss-Goria's cost reduction.

02
Rendmaw, Creaking Nest

Rendmaw, Creaking Nest

85.0% of decks · synergy 0.81

Rendmaw, Creaking Nest generates tokens whenever artifacts leave the battlefield, and Darksteel Citadel's indestructibility means it's a persistent artifact presence that survives mass removal — it also enters untapped, making it a zero-downside inclusion.

03
Saheeli, the Gifted

Saheeli, the Gifted

85.8% of decks · synergy 0.80

Saheeli, the Gifted reduces the cost of artifacts you cast, and her second ability counts each artifact you control — Darksteel Citadel pads that count for free, turning the land slot into productive artifact density.

04
Osgir, the Reconstructor

Osgir, the Reconstructor

87.8% of decks · synergy 0.79

Osgir, the Reconstructor can exile Darksteel Citadel from the graveyard to create copies of it, which means a single copy can become two indestructible artifact lands — it's one of the few cards Osgir can double that also functions as mana production.

05
Imskir Iron-Eater

Imskir Iron-Eater

82.0% of decks · synergy 0.78

Imskir Iron-Eater wants artifacts to sacrifice for card draw and life, and Darksteel Citadel's indestructibility means it can be sacrificed, recurred, and used again — it's a repeatable resource rather than a one-time fuel source.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper legal
oathbreaker legal

In Commander, Darksteel Citadel is essentially a free artifact for any deck that cares about artifact count — the colorless-only production is a real constraint in two- or three-color builds, but artifact-centric decks often lean colorless enough that it barely registers. In Modern and Legacy, it anchors Affinity and Urza-style artifact strategies, where its indestructibility makes it resistant to targeted land destruction and its artifact type does real work turning on metalcraft and affinity costs. Pauper Affinity runs it as a staple — the format's artifact synergies are dense enough that a land that's also an artifact is genuinely powerful at common. Vintage and Pioneer both allow it, though it sees narrow play outside dedicated artifact shells in those formats.

Key Combos

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Price Context

Current price

$1.45 cheap tier

At $1.45, Darksteel Citadel sits in the cheap tier — it's been reprinted enough that the price has stayed low and shows no signs of climbing. It's an easy include for the price: a land slot that doubles as artifact density costs you nothing beyond the colorless constraint.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.