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Land's Edge

World Enchantment

Discard a card: If the discarded card was a land card, this enchantment deals 2 damage to target player or planeswalker. Any player may activate this ability.

CMC
3
Mana cost
{1}{R}{R}
Color identity
R
Rarity
rare
Set
Legends
Price
$27.25
EDHREC rank
#20541
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Land's Edge card art
Land's Edge turns every extra land into a Lightning Bolt with no mana attached — in a format full of fetchlands and land-drop payoffs, that pressure is real and immediate. The Gitrog Monster decks are its natural home, where discarding lands is a feature, not a cost.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern not legal
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Land's Edge is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, and Commander is the only format where it consistently earns a slot. Legacy and Vintage have no shortage of ways to deal two damage to a player, and Land's Edge is too slow and situational to compete there. In Commander, the card earns its keep in dedicated land-discard or land-recursion shells where the discard clause is nearly free — it's irrelevant outside those archetypes.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Budget Alternatives

Cheaper options that do most of the same work

Seismic Assault does the same thing for less money and is the go-to substitute when Land's Edge is out of budget, though it requires triple red and can't hit creatures the way Land's Edge can. If you want the damage-to-any-target clause on Seismic Assault rather than player-only on Land's Edge, that's actually an upgrade, not a downgrade.

Price Context

Current price

$27.25 premium tier

At $27.25, Land's Edge sits in premium territory driven entirely by Reserved List scarcity — it's a narrow enchantment in a narrow archetype, and the price reflects collector demand more than competitive prevalence. It holds its floor because reprinting is impossible, but don't expect growth; casual interest in land-matters decks is the only engine here.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.