Nomad Stadium
Land
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. This land deals 1 damage to you.
Threshold — , , Sacrifice this land: You gain 4 life. Activate only if there are seven or more cards in your graveyard.
- CMC
- 0
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Odyssey
- Price
- $0.47
- EDHREC rank
- #14019
Nomad Stadium enters untapped and taps for white mana, but every activation loads a counter onto it, and when it has ten you're forced to sacrifice it and lose ten life. Outside of a dedicated life-loss engine like Darien, King of Kjeldor, that clock makes it a strictly worse Plains.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Darien, King of Kjeldor
Darien, King of Kjeldor turns each point of damage you take into a 1/1 Soldier token, so Nomad Stadium's forced life payment isn't a drawback — it's a token generator stapled to a land.
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 |
In Commander, Nomad Stadium is a niche role-player with one real home: Darien, King of Kjeldor decks that want repeatable, on-demand self-damage. Everywhere else in the format it's a liability, since a land that eventually kills you for ten isn't competing with fetchlands or even basic Plains. In Legacy and Vintage it's technically legal but has never seen play — the card pool is deep enough that no competitive shell needs a white source that doubles as a slow clock. The card lives and dies in Commander, and even there it belongs in exactly one archetype.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.47 bulk tier
At $0.47, Nomad Stadium is bulk — you're not paying a premium for anything here. Demand is narrow enough that the price is unlikely to move meaningfully in either direction.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.