Rocky Tar Pit
Land
This land enters tapped.
, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Swamp or Mountain card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
- CMC
- 0
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Mirage
- Price
- $0.64
- EDHREC rank
- #3368
Rocky Tar Pit enters tapped and fetches a basic Swamp or Mountain, which is a slow but reliable way to fix black-red mana while thinning the deck by one land. Hearthhull, the Worldseed and similar landfall-centric commanders extract extra value from the sacrifice trigger, making the tempo cost worth paying.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Hearthhull, the Worldseed
Hearthhull, the Worldseed treats every fetch land as a two-trigger landfall event — the sacrifice of Rocky Tar Pit and the land entering — which accelerates its counters or token generation faster than a basic land ever could.
Szarel, Genesis Shepherd
Szarel, Genesis Shepherd's graveyard recursion engine benefits from Rocky Tar Pit cycling itself out of the deck and into the bin, where Szarel can pull value from the sacrifice rather than letting it sit as a dead draw late.
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 |
Rocky Tar Pit is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, and that's exactly where it lives — formats built around singleton construction or deep card pools where fetch land redundancy matters. In Commander, it's a budget slot filler for Jund, Rakdos, or any deck that wants to hit both black and red mana reliably without paying for a Bloodstained Mire. Legacy and Vintage have access to far better fetchlands, so Rocky Tar Pit rarely competes there. Oathbreaker mirrors Commander's logic — if you need the eighth or ninth fetch effect and budget is a constraint, it earns its slot.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.64 bulk tier
At $0.64, Rocky Tar Pit sits firmly in bulk territory and is unlikely to climb meaningfully given the abundance of reprints and the modest demand ceiling for slow fetchlands. It's the right call when you need redundant black-red fixing on a budget and can't justify the $15–$20 price tag on Bloodstained Mire.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.