Strangled Cemetery
Land
This land enters tapped unless a player has 13 or less life.
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- CMC
- 0
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BG
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Duskmourn: House of Horror
- Price
- $0.17
- EDHREC rank
- #8636
Strangled Cemetery enters tapped, which is the tax you pay for a dual land at bulk price — acceptable in slower Commander builds, a liability in anything trying to win before turn four. It's a reliable Swamp-and-Forest source for black-green decks that need both pips and aren't moving fast enough for the tapped clause to sting.
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 |
In Commander, Strangled Cemetery is a budget floor for Golgari decks — it does the job without complaint if you're not chasing competitive speeds, and the color fixing is clean. In faster 60-card formats like Modern and Pioneer, tapped duals are largely unplayable; Strangled Cemetery cedes too much tempo on the critical early turns where black-green midrange needs to be executing its plan. Legacy and Vintage have access to strictly better options at effectively zero incremental cost, so it doesn't see play there. Pauper is where Strangled Cemetery earns a second look — the format's slower clock and limited dual-land options make tapped fixing genuinely viable, and the consistent Swamp-and-Forest typing matters for basic-land-matters effects.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.17 bulk tier
At $0.17, Strangled Cemetery is pure bulk — you're paying for cardboard and shipping, not the card itself. That price is stable because demand never spikes for tapped duals; pick up as many copies as your budget decks need without a second thought.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.