Sorrow's Path
Land
: Choose two target blocking creatures controlled by the same opponent. If each of those creatures could block all creatures that the other is blocking, remove both of them from combat. Each one then blocks all creatures the other was blocking.
Whenever this land becomes tapped, it deals 2 damage to you and each creature you control.
- CMC
- 0
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Magic Online Promos
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #23151
Sorrow's Path lets you redirect attacking creatures to different blockers — and deals 2 damage to you and taps itself every time you activate it, while also triggering any 'land enters tapped' penalties you've stacked up. It is functionally a land that damages its own controller and has no competitive home outside of dedicated 'bad card' or group hug chaos builds.
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 |
Sorrow's Path is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, and sees essentially zero play in any of them. In Commander it occupies a narrow niche in self-damage engines or 'cursed card' decks that deliberately run the worst cards ever printed. Legacy and Vintage have no reason to touch it — the activation cost in life and tempo is too steep against any functional deck. Oathbreaker mirrors Commander in this regard: Sorrow's Path is a curiosity, not a tool.
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Price Context
Current price
unknown tier
Pricing data for Sorrow's Path is inconsistent — it's a notoriously low-print card with a cult reputation as one of the worst cards ever made, which occasionally inflates its price among collectors beyond any gameplay value. If you're buying it to play it, you're doing so ironically; if you're buying it as a collectible oddity, expect to pay a small premium over its functional worth of zero.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.