Jagged Barrens
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
- BR
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Outlaws of Thunder Junction
- Price
- $0.40
- EDHREC rank
- #3334
Jagged Barrens enters tapped, but it pays you back immediately by pinging each opponent for 1 — in a 4-player pod, that's 3 damage on arrival with zero additional investment. The cost is real: tapped lands slow you down, and in faster metas that tempo hit matters. For Marchesa, Dealer of Death and any deck that wants repeated, low-effort damage triggers, the trade is worth it.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Marchesa, Dealer of Death
Marchesa, Dealer of Death rewards pinging opponents to control which player has the least life, and Jagged Barrens delivers three pings the turn it hits without requiring any spells or activations. That free damage on entry makes it trivially easy to sculpt the life total landscape before Marchesa's triggered abilities even factor in.
Gev, Scaled Scorch
Gev, Scaled Scorch cares about dealing damage to creatures with counters, and any consistent chip damage source that reaches all opponents helps prime the battlefield. Jagged Barrens contributes to that damage density from the land slot, which means Gev, Scaled Scorch gets incremental value without spending a card.
Laughing Jasper Flint
Laughing Jasper Flint triggers off opponents taking damage, so a land that deals damage to all three opponents on entry is exactly the kind of passive trigger-generator the deck wants. Jagged Barrens does work before you've even untapped, stacking damage events that feed Jasper's exile-and-cast engine.
Rakdos, Lord of Riots
Rakdos, Lord of Riots requires opponents to have taken damage before he can attack, and Jagged Barrens satisfies that condition the moment it enters — no spells, no creatures, no setup. It's one of the cleanest ways to flip the Rakdos enabler condition off a land drop alone.
Tor Wauki the Younger
Tor Wauki the Younger pings opponents through instants and sorceries, and Jagged Barrens adds to that damage floor from a slot that normally contributes nothing beyond mana. Running Jagged Barrens means Tor Wauki the Younger has a baseline of free reach every time the land enters, independent of what spells you're casting.
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 |
Jagged Barrens is legal everywhere but earns its keep almost exclusively in Commander, where the enters-tapped drawback is acceptable in exchange for hitting three opponents at once. In 1v1 formats — Modern, Pioneer, Legacy — a tapped land that deals 1 to one opponent is simply a bad Shock that costs you a land drop; no competitive list wants it. Pauper is the one potential outlier for casual builds, but the tempo loss still makes it a fringe consideration at best. Commander is the only context where the math works: 3 damage spread across the table from a land is genuine free value, and Rakdos decks that want repeatable chip damage have been running Jagged Barrens for exactly that reason.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.40 bulk tier
At $0.40, Jagged Barrens sits firmly in bulk territory — cheap enough to throw into any Rakdos list without a second thought. Bulk rares stabilize and stay cheap, so there's no reason to stock up speculatively, but picking up a copy whenever you need one costs less than a sleeve.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.