Sunscorched Desert
Land — Desert
When this land enters, it deals 1 damage to target player or planeswalker.
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- CMC
- 0
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Amonkhet Remastered
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #3163
Sunscorched Desert enters the battlefield and immediately deals 1 damage to any opponent — a land that doubles as a free ping. The cost is real: it enters tapped and produces only colorless mana, so you're trading tempo for the trigger, which only makes sense in decks that want Desert permanents in play or in the graveyard, like Hazezon, Shaper of Sand shells looping it with Second Sunrise effects.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Hazezon, Shaper of Sand
Hazezon, Shaper of Sand cares about Deserts entering and leaving the battlefield, making Sunscorched Desert a free ping stapled to a Desert that fuels Sand Warrior generation and graveyard recursion loops.
Lumra, Bellow of the Woods
Lumra, Bellow of the Woods mills lands into the graveyard and rewards you for putting them there, so Sunscorched Desert pulls double duty as both a mill target and a landfall-style trigger that chips away at opponents while you build your engine.
Yuma, Proud Protector
Yuma, Proud Protector generates tokens when Deserts hit your graveyard, so Sunscorched Desert is a free 1-damage ping on entry plus a future token when it dies or gets cycled into the bin.
Ghyrson Starn, Kelermorph
Ghyrson Starn, Kelermorph converts every source that deals exactly 1 damage into a 2-damage bonus, turning Sunscorched Desert's entry trigger into a free 3 total damage spread across opponents — consistently, off a land.
The Infamous Cruelclaw
The Infamous Cruelclaw rewards pinging effects and incremental damage sources, and Sunscorched Desert provides a repeatable entry trigger every time it gets bounced or recurred, adding to the cumulative damage plan the deck wants to execute.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Sunscorched Desert sees essentially zero play in competitive formats — Legacy, Modern, and Vintage all demand lands that either come in untapped or provide colored mana, and a tapped colorless land that pings for 1 is nowhere near that bar. Pauper is the one non-Commander format where it's occasionally worth a look in dedicated Desert synergy builds or aggressive red shells that want free damage, but even there it's fringe. Commander is where Sunscorched Desert earns its slot, specifically in Desert-tribal and landfall-adjacent decks that can recur it repeatedly or amplify the 1-damage trigger — outside those shells, it's still just a slow colorless land.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Second SunriseCodex ShredderSunscorched DesertZuran Orb
Infinite damage; Infinite landfall triggers; Infinite mana lands you control can produce; Infinite storm count; Infinite lifegain; Infinite lifegain triggers; Infinite magecraft triggers
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Sunscorched Desert is a bulk common and price data is sparse, but copies are typically available for pennies across most retailers and buylist prices reflect that. If you need it, grab a copy out of a bulk bin or tack it onto any order — there's no price pressure worth thinking about here.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.