Unquenchable Thirst
Enchantment — Aura
Enchant creature
When this Aura enters, if you control a Desert or there is a Desert card in your graveyard, tap enchanted creature.
Enchanted creature doesn't untap during its controller's untap step.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Amonkhet Remastered
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #28706
Unquenchable Thirst taps a creature and, if you control a Desert or there's one in a graveyard, keeps it tapped permanently — effectively a one-sided, conditional Arrest for two mana. The condition is easy enough to meet in dedicated Desert shells that it reads as a clean removal spell, but outside that context it's just an overcosted Paralyze.
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 |
Unquenchable Thirst is a pauper-legal common, and that's where it does its best work — in Desert-themed or cycling-heavy builds where the tap-lock condition is nearly always live. In Commander it slots into Amonkhet-flavored Desert decks, particularly those running Hazezon, Shaper of Sand or Rhonas the Indomitable, though it competes with harder removal that doesn't depend on a land type. In Modern, Pioneer, and Legacy the bar for two-mana interaction is high enough that Unquenchable Thirst rarely makes the cut outside niche brews. Vintage has no reason to look at it.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
unknown tier
Pricing data for Unquenchable Thirst isn't currently available, but as a common from Hour of Devastation it typically sits in bulk range — expect to pay under $0.25 for a copy. It's not a card you need to track down urgently; grab a copy whenever you're placing a singles order for a Desert build.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.