Sunken Ruins
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- CMC
- 0
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BU
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Final Fantasy Commander
- Price
- $3.09
- EDHREC rank
- #1057
Sunken Ruins enters untapped and produces UU or BB with no drawback — that's dual-land performance at a budget price. Any deck with a serious blue-black pip requirement, like Y'shtola, Night's Blessed, runs it without debate.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Y'shtola, Night's Blessed
Y'shtola, Night's Blessed demands both UU and BB on curve, and Sunken Ruins is one of the handful of lands that delivers either without entering tapped or asking for a basic land cost.
G'raha Tia, Scion Reborn
G'raha Tia, Scion Reborn operates in a tight blue-black shell where every land that produces both colors cleanly is an automatic inclusion, and Sunken Ruins does exactly that.
Emet-Selch, Unsundered
Emet-Selch, Unsundered rewards precise mana construction, and Sunken Ruins fills the role of a true dual without the price tag of Underground Sea.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Sunken Ruins earns its keep — blue-black is one of the format's most popular color pairs, and the demand for untapped dual-pip production on turn one or two is constant. In Legacy and Vintage, it competes directly with Underground Sea and Watery Grave, which are strictly better in most contexts; Sunken Ruins sees occasional play in budget builds or as a fifth-and-sixth copy of the effect. Modern has little use for it given the fetchable shock land infrastructure. Oathbreaker mirrors Commander's calculus almost exactly, so it slots in there for the same reasons.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$3.09 cheap tier
At $3.09, Sunken Ruins sits at the cheapest end of untapped blue-black dual production — everything above it on the power curve costs dramatically more. It's a stable role-player price: high enough demand across Commander to prevent it from sinking lower, low enough that it's a no-brainer include.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Y'shtola, Night's Blessed
- G'raha Tia, Scion Reborn
- Emet-Selch, Unsundered
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.