Keldon Necropolis
Legendary Land
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, , Sacrifice a creature: Keldon Necropolis deals 2 damage to any target.
- CMC
- 0
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Invasion
- Price
- $1.00
- EDHREC rank
- #19204
Keldon Necropolis lets you sacrifice a creature to deal 2 damage to any target — repeatable, instant-speed removal stapled to a land, which is genuinely useful in sacrifice-matters Commander decks. The cost is steep: three mana and tapping the land means you're spending resources most turns you'd rather be playing spells.
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 |
Keldon Necropolis is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but sees meaningful play only in Commander, where the 100-card singleton format rewards redundant sacrifice outlets that don't eat a spell slot. In Legacy and Vintage the opportunity cost of a land that enters tapped and demands three mana to activate is prohibitive — those formats have no patience for that kind of inefficiency. In Commander, Keldon Necropolis earns its slot in dedicated sacrifice shells where the free-spell texture of a land-based outlet matters, though three mana is a real ask when Viscera Seer and Altar of Dementia do the same job for zero.
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Price Context
Current price
$1.00 cheap tier
At $1.00, Keldon Necropolis sits comfortably in the cheap tier — low enough that the cost of trying it is trivial. Demand is narrow enough that the price is unlikely to climb, so there's no urgency in acquiring it beyond when you actually need it.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.