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Deserted Temple

Land

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}, {T}: Untap target land.

CMC
0
Mana cost
Color identity
C
Rarity
rare
Set
Odyssey
Price
$6.75
EDHREC rank
#1733
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Deserted Temple card art
Deserted Temple untaps any land — including ones that produce multiple mana — which makes it a functional mana doubler in the decks that want it most. The real ceiling is pairing it with Rings of Brighthearth to untap the same land twice, a line that appears in over half of all Thrasios, Triton Hero // Yoshimaru, Ever Faithful lists for a reason.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Thrasios, Triton HeroYoshimaru, Ever Faithful

Thrasios, Triton Hero // Yoshimaru, Ever Faithful

58.3% of decks · synergy 0.57

Deserted Temple is in 58% of Thrasios, Triton Hero // Yoshimaru, Ever Faithful lists because it's a key piece of the Rings of Brighthearth infinite-mana engine — untap a Gaea's Cradle or Cabal Coffers twice, funnel the output into Thrasios, and you're drawing your deck.

02
Lumra, Bellow of the Woods

Lumra, Bellow of the Woods

28.8% of decks · synergy 0.26

Lumra, Bellow of the Woods puts lands into play repeatedly, and Deserted Temple turns the resulting high-land-count board into a significant mana advantage by untapping whichever land produces the most.

03
Ultima, Origin of Oblivion

Ultima, Origin of Oblivion

26.9% of decks · synergy 0.09

Ultima, Origin of Oblivion shells tend to pack powerful utility lands and need redundant ways to squeeze extra activations out of them — Deserted Temple provides exactly that without requiring any colored mana.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Deserted Temple is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but it belongs almost entirely to Commander. In Legacy and Vintage, the format's pace is too fast for a land that enters tapped and requires an untap trigger to generate value — the tempo loss is prohibitive outside of very specific Cloudpost or Cabal Coffers builds. Modern sees occasional fringe play in land-centric shells, but it has never been a staple there. Commander is where Deserted Temple earns every slot: the longer games, the presence of Gaea's Cradle, Cabal Coffers, and other absurd mana lands, and the availability of Rings of Brighthearth make it a legitimate engine piece rather than a cute trick.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Budget Alternatives

Cheaper options that do most of the same work

There is no true budget replacement for Deserted Temple because its effect — untapping any land, colorlessly, from a land slot — is essentially unique. Voyaging Satyr and Arbor Elf can untap lands but consume a creature slot, require green, and die to removal. If the goal is simply extracting extra value from a key land rather than enabling a specific combo, those are the closest functional substitutes, but you are trading away the combo upside and the slot efficiency that make Deserted Temple worth running in the first place.

Price Context

Current price

$6.75 mid tier

At $6.75, Deserted Temple sits in the mid tier — meaningful enough to notice in a budget build, cheap enough that it's not a barrier in a tuned list. It holds value well given how narrow but irreplaceable its role is in Rings of Brighthearth combo shells.

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