Rumbling Rockslide
Sorcery
Rumbling Rockslide deals damage to target creature equal to the number of lands you control.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- The Lost Caverns of Ixalan
- Price
- $0.05
- EDHREC rank
- #16409
Rumbling Rockslide deals damage equal to the number of lands you control to any target — a number that climbs into the double digits in a typical Commander game. Five mana is steep for a single removal spell, but the damage ceiling makes it legitimate spot removal in landfall or big-mana red decks.
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 |
Rumbling Rockslide finds its best home in Commander, where land counts routinely hit 10–15 by mid-game and the damage output becomes enough to one-shot planeswalkers or close out a weakened player. In competitive 60-card formats like Modern and Pioneer it doesn't clear the bar — five mana for a sorcery-speed burn spell competes against far more efficient options, and land counts are too low early for the damage to matter. Pauper is where it's most interesting outside EDH: the format lacks efficient removal at this effect size, and slower midrange mirrors can give you time to load up enough lands to make it punishing.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.05 bulk tier
At $0.05, Rumbling Rockslide is pure bulk — you're paying for cardboard and shipping, not the card itself. That price is stable by default; bulk commons don't move unless a deck archetype spikes demand, and nothing on the horizon points that direction here.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.