Rogue's Passage
Land
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, : Target creature can't be blocked this turn.
- CMC
- 0
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Commander 2021
- Price
- $0.37
- EDHREC rank
- #19
Rogue's Passage is a colorless land that makes any creature unblockable for four mana — it shows up in tens of thousands of Commander decks because that effect is universally useful across every strategy that wins with combat damage, including commanders like Phage the Untouchable where a single unblocked hit ends the game. The one real cost is that it enters tapped, which is a genuine tempo hit in faster metas.
Where It Shines
Where the extra mana on turn one matters most
Big-mana shells like Kaalia of the Vast
Kaalia of the Vast already wants to connect in combat to cheat in Angels, Demons, and Dragons, making Rogue's Passage a direct enabler of the deck's primary game plan — four mana is easy to spend in the mid-to-late game when your board is full of threats that need to get through.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Rogue's Passage earns its reputation — three opponents means more blockers and more incentive to push a single threat through, and the four-mana activation is easy to justify in a 40-life format that plays long. In competitive 60-card formats like Modern and Pioneer, it's almost never worth a land slot; the tap-in penalty and high activation cost are prohibitive when games end on turn four. Legacy and Vintage have access to far more efficient evasion tools, so it sees essentially no play there either. Rogue's Passage is a Commander card through and through.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.37 bulk tier
At $0.37, Rogue's Passage sits firmly in bulk territory despite its near-ubiquitous presence in Commander — wide availability from multiple printings keeps the price suppressed, so there's no reason to pay more than bulk rates for a copy.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.