Immersturm Skullcairn
Land
This land enters tapped.
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, , Sacrifice this land: It deals 3 damage to target player. That player discards a card. Activate only as a sorcery.
- CMC
- 0
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BR
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Kaldheim
- Price
- $0.16
- EDHREC rank
- #16496
Immersturm Skullcairn forces a target opponent to discard two cards and lose 2 life the moment it enters — that's a meaningful discard payload stapled to a land that comes with no mana cost to the effect itself. The catch is it enters tapped and only taps for colorless, so you're paying in tempo and color consistency every time you run it.
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, Immersturm Skullcairn earns a spot in dedicated discard-matters decks where the enter-the-battlefield trigger is a repeatable threat if you can bounce or recur the land — commanders that flicker or return permanents to hand make this significantly better than it looks. In competitive 1v1 formats like Legacy, Modern, and Pioneer, it doesn't make the cut: one-time discard on a tapped colorless land is too slow and too low-impact against decks that operate at higher efficiency. Oathbreaker shares Commander's multiplayer texture, so the same discard-synergy shells apply, though the smaller deck size makes the land slot opportunity cost feel heavier.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.16 bulk tier
At $0.16, Immersturm Skullcairn is deep bulk — you're picking this up as a throw-in or out of a common box, not hunting it down. At that price it holds no real monetary value, but the floor is already the floor, so there's no financial risk in sleeving four copies to test.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.