Scorch the Fields
Sorcery
Destroy target land. Scorch the Fields deals 1 damage to each Human creature.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Dark Ascension
- Price
- $0.08
- EDHREC rank
- #29333
Scorch the Fields wipes every basic Forest from the battlefield and deals 2 damage to each creature for each land destroyed that way — a red sweeper that punishes green mana bases hard. Six mana is steep, but the ceiling against a heavily green table is a mass land wipe plus a creature board wipe rolled into one.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Scorch the Fields earns its slot specifically at tables where green is dominant — with three or four players running basic Forests, the damage trigger can clear creature boards that cost far more to remove individually. Outside of Commander, the card is too situational to see meaningful play: Legacy, Vintage, and Modern run fetchlands and dual lands over basics, so the destruction clause fizzles, and in Pauper the format's slower pace and common-legal green ramp do run basics, making it marginally playable as a sideboard piece against stompy. Oathbreaker follows the same logic as Commander — playable when the meta calls for it, unplayable otherwise.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.08 bulk tier
At $0.08, Scorch the Fields is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard, not scarcity. There's no price floor to speak of, and it won't climb unless it lands in a precon or a format suddenly rewards hating out basic Forests at scale.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.