Scabland
Land
This land enters tapped.
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. This land deals 1 damage to you.
- CMC
- 0
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- RW
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Tempest
- Price
- $1.51
- EDHREC rank
- #21079
Scabland enters tapped and produces either colorless or deals 1 damage to you for colored mana — that's a real tax that accumulates over a game. It's a strictly inferior dual for nearly every deck, and the only reason to run it is if you have no better options for red or white fixing.
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 |
Scabland is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but seeing meaningful play in none of them. In Commander, the enters-tapped penalty and life-loss rider make it a last-resort land for two-color or three-color decks that have already exhausted better fixing — fetch lands, shock lands, and pain lands all outclass it. Legacy and Vintage have access to the full dual land suite, so Scabland never makes the cut. It's a card that exists for ultra-budget builds where every other option is spoken for.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$1.51 cheap tier
At $1.51, Scabland sits in the cheap tier but overprices its actual power level — you can get a Battlefield Forge or Inspiring Vantage for the same money or less and never look back. It holds modest value only as a collector curiosity from an old print run, not as a functional staple.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.