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Dormant Volcano

Land

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, sacrifice it unless you return an untapped Mountain you control to its owner's hand.
{T}: Add {C}{R}.

CMC
0
Mana cost
Color identity
R
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Commander 2014
Price
$0.88
EDHREC rank
#9174
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Dormant Volcano card art
Dormant Volcano enters tapped and asks you to bounce a Mountain, which is a real cost — but it pays you back with a land that taps for both red and colorless, enabling specific combo lines that care about producing more mana than you spend. Agatha of the Vile Cauldron decks, for example, can exploit the bounce trigger to fuel activated abilities repeatedly, making the tempo loss worth it in the right shell.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Dormant Volcano is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, and that's essentially the full picture — it's not modern-legal and sees no competitive play in Legacy or Vintage where the tempo cost is disqualifying. Commander is where Dormant Volcano finds its niche: specifically in decks that loop lands, care about land drops, or need a repeatable source of colorless mana alongside red. Outside of dedicated combo shells, it's a fringe inclusion that most red-based Commander decks will pass on in favor of untapped dual lands.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.88 bulk tier

At $0.88, Dormant Volcano sits firmly in bulk territory. It's cheap enough to throw into any experimental combo build without hesitation, and the price is unlikely to move meaningfully unless a specific loop deck pushes it into the spotlight.

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