Festering Gulch
Land — Desert
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, it deals 1 damage to target opponent.
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- CMC
- 0
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BG
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Outlaws of Thunder Junction
- Price
- $0.31
- EDHREC rank
- #4841
Festering Gulch enters tapped and produces either colorless mana or black mana with a -1/-1 rider attached to a creature you control — a real cost that can kill a one-toughness creature or undermine a counter-stacking strategy. It's a strict downgrade from a basic Swamp in any deck that doesn't actively want -1/-1 counters on its own creatures.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Festering Gulch is legal everywhere but earns a slot almost nowhere. In Commander, the -1/-1 trigger is occasionally useful in Hapatra, Vizier of Poisons or Atraxa, Praetors' Voice shells that run counter-synergy payoffs, but even there a Golgari Rot Farm or Jungle Hollow does more work without the downside. In Pauper, where every land slot is contested and enters-tapped lands are already a tempo concession, the self-damage rider pushes it below the threshold for serious consideration. Constructed formats have no realistic home — the card simply doesn't compete with the density of functional dual lands available at common.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.31 bulk tier
At $0.31, Festering Gulch sits in bulk territory and will stay there — demand is too narrow to move the needle. If you're building a -1/-1 counter deck on a shoestring, it's a fine penny pickup, but don't expect it to appreciate.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.