Hidden Necropolis
Land — Cave
This land enters tapped.
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, , Sacrifice this land: Discover 4. Activate only as a sorcery. (Exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card with mana value 4 or less. Cast it without paying its mana cost or put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom in a random order.)
- CMC
- 0
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- The Lost Caverns of Ixalan
- Price
- $0.15
- EDHREC rank
- #5206
Hidden Necropolis enters tapped, which is the entire cost — you get a dual land that produces both black and red mana for the rest of the game. Zoyowa Lava-Tongue and similar commanders that want consistent BR mana on curve run it without hesitation.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Zoyowa Lava-Tongue
Zoyowa Lava-Tongue demands reliable access to both black and red on the same turn, and Hidden Necropolis delivers that for free beyond the one-time tempo hit of entering tapped — it's the kind of fixing that keeps the engine humming without eating into the budget.
Zoraline, Cosmos Caller
Zoraline, Cosmos Caller runs a high density of BR pips and Hidden Necropolis fills a fixing slot that would otherwise go to a worse option, making it a near-automatic inclusion in most builds.
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 |
In Commander, Hidden Necropolis is a reliable budget dual for any deck in the Rakdos color identity — the enters-tapped drawback matters far less in a 40-life, slower-paced format than anywhere else. In faster competitive formats like Modern or Pioneer, it's largely outclassed by untapped duals and fetch-shock combinations, where losing one mana's tempo on turn one can cascade into a real disadvantage. Legacy and Vintage have access to dual lands that strictly outperform it, so Hidden Necropolis sees no meaningful play there. Pauper is where it earns a second look — budget Rakdos builds without access to better fixing run it as a functional piece of the mana base.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.15 bulk tier
At $0.15, Hidden Necropolis sits firmly in bulk territory and is unlikely to climb given how many comparable or superior fixing options exist across formats. Pick it up as a no-guilt include for budget Commander builds — just don't expect it to hold or gain value.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.