Rakdos Guildgate
Land — Gate
This land enters tapped.
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- CMC
- 0
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BR
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Ravnica Remastered
- Price
- $0.26
- EDHREC rank
- #1890
Rakdos Guildgate enters tapped, which is the whole problem — in a format where tempo matters, a land that costs you a turn is a real tax. In Rakdos, Lord of Riots builds that need every mana pip to resolve threats, that one-turn delay compounds fast enough to matter.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Rakdos, Lord of Riots
Rakdos, Lord of Riots decks run Rakdos Guildgate almost exclusively for budget reasons — the gate covers both color pips but the enters-tapped penalty conflicts with a commander that wants to hit opponents early and start discounting spells immediately.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Rakdos Guildgate is legal everywhere but only sees play in Commander, and even there it sits at the bottom of the dual-land hierarchy. In Pauper it's technically viable since the card pool is restricted, but faster formats like Modern and Pioneer have so many untapped dual options that this gate is never a real consideration. In Commander, it's a budget placeholder — it fills the black-red slot when Dragonskull Summit or Blood Crypt aren't in the budget, and that's the ceiling on its ambition.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.26 bulk tier
At $0.26, Rakdos Guildgate is deep bulk — you're buying it when you need a dual land and have nothing else to spend. It holds that floor price reliably since demand from budget Commander players keeps it from bottoming out entirely, but don't expect movement in either direction.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.