Earthlink
Enchantment
At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice this enchantment unless you pay 
.
Whenever a creature dies, that creature's controller sacrifices a land of their choice.
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BGR
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Masters Edition II
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #28617
Earthlink forces a land sacrifice whenever a creature dies — a punishing symmetrical effect that grinds land counts down over a long game. Six mana for a do-nothing enchantment is a steep entry fee, and the symmetry means it punishes you as much as the table unless you're built to minimize your own creature deaths.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Earthlink is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but it's effectively a Commander-only card — the six-mana cost and slow attrition payoff have no place in Legacy or Vintage, where games end before the effect accumulates. In Commander, Earthlink fits a very narrow lane: stax or land-destruction builds that can protect their own board while forcing opponents to trade creatures and lose lands simultaneously. It's not a staple in any of those shells, but it's a real card in the right prison deck.
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Price Context
Current price
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Pricing data for Earthlink isn't currently available in our system, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for a current figure. Given its narrow application and age, it tends to sit in bulk-rare territory, though copies can be scarce enough to push the price up modestly.
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Sources
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.