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Rakdos Carnarium

Land

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand.
{T}: Add {B}{R}.

CMC
0
Mana cost
Color identity
BR
Rarity
common
Set
Archenemy
Price
$0.34
EDHREC rank
#469
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Rakdos Carnarium card art
Rakdos Carnarium enters tapped and bounces a land you control — a real cost — but it produces two mana of either black or red from a single permanent, which is the entire reason it sees play. Commanders like Kodama of the East Tree that care about lands entering the battlefield turn that bounce drawback into a repeatable trigger, and Auntie Ool, Cursewretch lists run it as reliable two-color fixing that doubles as a landfall enabler.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Auntie Ool, Cursewretch

Auntie Ool, Cursewretch

45.2% of decks · synergy 0.34

Auntie Ool, Cursewretch builds around bouncing and replaying permanents, and Rakdos Carnarium fits directly into that loop — the forced bounce becomes a feature rather than a penalty when Auntie Ool rewards you for re-entering permanents.

03
Lord Windgrace

Lord Windgrace

34.3% of decks · synergy 0.23

Lord Windgrace treats every land in the graveyard as a resource, and Rakdos Carnarium feeds that engine — bouncing a land to hand means Lord Windgrace can discard it for value or replay it to trigger landfall again.

05
Mishra, Eminent One

Mishra, Eminent One

31.4% of decks · synergy 0.21

Mishra, Eminent One decks run a high density of artifacts and need clean two-color mana, and Rakdos Carnarium checks both boxes while entering at a cost low enough that the enters-tapped penalty rarely matters in an artifact-heavy curve.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Rakdos Carnarium is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pauper, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but its real home is Commander by a wide margin. In Pauper it sees occasional play as budget fixing in black-red shells, though the enters-tapped drawback is harsher in a format where tempo is everything. Legacy and Vintage have access to strictly better dual lands, so Rakdos Carnarium doesn't appear there competitively. Commander is where the card earns its keep — the singleton format depresses the cost of an enters-tapped land, and the two-mana-from-one-permanent upside lines up with ramp-hungry strategies and landfall triggers that make the bounce a net positive.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.34 bulk tier

At $0.34, Rakdos Carnarium sits firmly in bulk territory and has for years — it's been reprinted enough times that the price floor is essentially zero. Pick it up without hesitation; there's no meaningful financial risk, and it's unlikely to spike given the reprint history.

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