Hostile Desert
Land — Desert
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, Exile a land card from your graveyard: This land becomes a 3/4 Elemental creature until end of turn. It's still a land.
- CMC
- 0
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Murders at Karlov Manor Commander
- Price
- $0.25
- EDHREC rank
- #9246
Hostile Desert is a land that becomes a 3/4 creature for two mana by exiling a land from your graveyard — real board presence with no card investment beyond the slot it already occupies. The cost is real: you need lands in the graveyard to fuel it, and tapping out for a 3/4 leaves you without mana, so it earns its slot in graveyard-land strategies and nowhere else.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Hazezon, Shaper of Sand
Hazezon, Shaper of Sand generates Sand Warrior tokens from land plays and rewards stacking your deck with deserts, making Hostile Desert a natural inclusion — it's a desert that also closes games when Hazezon's token engine has filled the graveyard with cycled or fetched lands.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Hostile Desert is a role-player rather than a staple — it belongs in decks that cycle lands, use fetch effects, or otherwise fill the graveyard with land cards as a byproduct of their normal game plan. Outside of Commander, Hostile Desert is legal in Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but creature-lands in those formats compete against a much higher bar. Modern and Pioneer have access to faster, more resilient manlands, so Hostile Desert rarely makes the cut unless a deck specifically wants desert synergy or graveyard-land payoffs. Legacy and Vintage move too quickly for a 3/4 that requires setup to matter.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.25 bulk tier
At $0.25, Hostile Desert is firmly bulk — pick it up without a second thought if the deck wants it. Bulk desert synergy pieces don't tend to spike unless a new commander or mechanic forces demand, so treat it as a cheap, stable inclusion rather than anything to acquire in volume.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Hazezon, Shaper of Sand
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.