Forsaken City
Land
This land doesn't untap during your untap step.
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may exile a card from your hand. If you do, untap this land.
: Add one mana of any color.
- CMC
- 0
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Planeshift
- Price
- $9.41
- EDHREC rank
- #22271
Forsaken City taps for any color of mana — unconditional fixing on a land — but demands you exile a card from your hand each upkeep or it sacrifices itself. It's a dedicated piece for Stasis and untap-lock strategies; everywhere else, the upkeep cost bleeds card advantage too fast to justify.
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 |
Forsaken City sees essentially zero play in Legacy and Vintage despite being legal in both — the formats move too fast and too efficiently for a land that costs a card per turn to maintain. Commander is its only real home, and even there the card is narrow: it exists to fuel Stasis locks and similar permanents that prevent your own untap step, where the exile cost becomes irrelevant because you weren't untapping anyway. Outside of that specific axis, Forsaken City is a liability in 99-card decks that need consistent card advantage to function.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Budget Alternatives
Cheaper options that do most of the same work
Forsaken City doesn't have a true budget replacement because its function is so specific — no other land pays an upkeep cost in exchange for free five-color fixing inside a lock strategy. City of Brass and Mana Confluence both produce any color without an upkeep, but they don't replace Forsaken City in Stasis shells because they punish you for using them rather than rewarding you for skipping your untap step.
Price Context
Current price
$9.41 mid tier
At $9.41, Forsaken City sits in the mid tier — expensive for a card with such a narrow use case. Demand is almost entirely driven by Stasis enthusiasts in Commander, so the price is stable but unlikely to climb without a meaningful spike in that archetype's popularity.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.