Shadowblood Ridge
Land
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- CMC
- 0
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BR
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Doctor Who
- Price
- $0.37
- EDHREC rank
- #422
Shadowblood Ridge enters tapped, but it pays you back with any two of black, blue, or red — the full pip spread for three-color combinations anchored in Grixis. For commanders like Davros, Dalek Creator that need to hit all three colors in the first few turns, it's a clean, no-thought inclusion despite the tempo cost.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Davros, Dalek Creator
Davros, Dalek Creator runs a Grixis shell that wants every color available early to start converting card draw into Dalek tokens, and Shadowblood Ridge covers any two of those three pips off a single land slot.
Olivia, Opulent Outlaw
Olivia, Opulent Outlaw needs black and red reliably to cast and activate her on curve, and Shadowblood Ridge is one of the few non-fetch budget duals that delivers both without fighting for a slot.
Terra, Herald of Hope
Terra, Herald of Hope sits in a four- or five-color shell where hitting specific early pips matters more than land speed, and Shadowblood Ridge fills the blue-black or blue-red gap cleanly on a tight budget.
Disa the Restless
Disa the Restless is a Jund commander, but black-red fixing is still the hardest pip pairing in that color identity to cover cheaply, and Shadowblood Ridge handles it without competing with green ramp slots.
Caesar, Legion's Emperor
Caesar, Legion's Emperor wants consistent access to all three Mardu colors to flood the board with tokens and triggers, and Shadowblood Ridge covers the black-red edge of that triangle where budget fixing runs thinnest.
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 |
Shadowblood Ridge sees essentially no competitive play in Legacy or Vintage, where the pain lands and dual lands it would replace are already in most sideboards — it's technically legal but practically irrelevant there. Commander is its real home: singleton construction means every dual counts, and the tap-in cost is a reasonable price when the upside is flexible two-color fixing in any Grixis, Mardu, Dimir, or multicolor shell. In Oathbreaker, the same logic applies, though the lower starting life total makes the occasional tap-land sting slightly more on curve.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.37 bulk tier
At $0.37, Shadowblood Ridge is deep bulk — you can pick up a playset for less than a draft pick without a second thought. Bulk filter lands rarely spike, so this stays accessible as long as it remains unplayed in eternal formats.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.