Luxury Suite
Land
This land enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents.
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- CMC
- 0
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BR
- Rarity
- mythic
- Set
- Zendikar Rising Expeditions
- Price
- $35.29
- EDHREC rank
- #164
Luxury Suite enters untapped in a two-player game and produces black or red mana with no additional cost — that's a dual land doing its job from turn one. The only real downside is the two-or-more-opponents clause, which is irrelevant in Commander and a liability everywhere else; Ob Nixilis, Captive Kingpin decks run it at a 61% clip for exactly that reason.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Ob Nixilis, Captive Kingpin
Ob Nixilis, Captive Kingpin wants to resolve on curve and start triggering immediately, so untapped black-red mana on the first few turns is non-negotiable — Luxury Suite delivers that without any painful life payment or tempo loss.
Sakashima of a Thousand Faces // Vial Smasher the Fierce
Sakashima of a Thousand Faces // Vial Smasher the Fierce operates in a Dimir-plus-red shell where every early land that enters tapped can mean a missed Vial Smasher trigger or a delayed clone; Luxury Suite keeps the engine on schedule.
Vazi, Keen Negotiator
Vazi, Keen Negotiator runs a multiplayer-forward game plan where three or more opponents are the default, so Luxury Suite's untapped condition is permanently satisfied and the gold-producing consistency matters for a three-color mana base.
Henzie "Toolbox" Torre
Henzie "Toolbox" Torre lives in Jund and needs functional black-red mana by turn two to blitz anything on curve; Luxury Suite is one of the cleanest ways to hit that requirement without dipping into pain lands.
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 |
Luxury Suite is essentially a Commander card — the two-or-more-opponents clause is a feature of the format, not a drawback, and it functions as an untapped dual in virtually every game you'll play. In Legacy and Vintage it's technically legal, but those formats rarely run multiplayer games, so the land enters tapped as often as not and loses out to fetchable duals or true dual lands without restriction. Oathbreaker is the one other format where the clause reliably fires, making Luxury Suite a clean include for any Rakdos-identity planeswalker commander. Skip it entirely in any 1v1 context unless you're building specifically for a multiplayer variant.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Budget Alternatives
Cheaper options that do most of the same work
Rakdos Carnarium and similar bounce lands produce both colors but enter tapped and set your tempo back a turn, which defeats the whole point of running Luxury Suite in the first place. The closest functional replacement in the $1–3 range is Sulfurous Springs or Graven Cairns — both enter untapped unconditionally, though Sulfurous Springs charges life and Graven Cairns demands the right colored mana to unlock, trade-offs that matter most in the early turns where Luxury Suite just works.
Price Context
Current price
$35.29 premium tier
At $35.29, Luxury Suite sits in the premium tier for a non-fetch dual, priced where it is because it's the best untapped black-red land available outside of original dual lands for Commander. It holds value as long as Rakdos remains one of the most-built color combinations in the format, which has been true for years and shows no sign of changing.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Ob Nixilis, Captive Kingpin
- Sakashima of a Thousand Faces // Vial Smasher the Fierce
- Vazi, Keen Negotiator
- Henzie "Toolbox" Torre
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.