Vengeant Earth
Instant
Target creature or land you control becomes a 4/4 Elemental creature with haste in addition to its other types until end of turn. It must be blocked this turn if able.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- March of the Machine
- Price
- $0.17
- EDHREC rank
- #23144
Vengeant Earth converts your land drops into a repeatable ping engine — each land you play deals damage equal to that land's number of basic land types to any target. The cost is your land drop, which you're taking anyway, making this a zero-opportunity-cost threat in any deck that floods the board with lands.
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 |
In Commander, Vengeant Earth earns a slot in any landfall-heavy build where you're already chaining multiple land drops per turn — the damage stacks fast and requires no extra mana investment. Shock lands and triomes each carry two basic land types, so Vengeant Earth scales meaningfully in three- or four-color decks running a fetchland package. In Pauper it's legal and potentially dangerous in land-synergy shells, though the format's low land-type density limits how much damage per trigger you realistically get. Competitive formats like Modern and Legacy have no interest — the effect is too slow and too conditional against the threats those formats present in the first few turns.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.17 bulk tier
At $0.17, Vengeant Earth is bulk — pick it up without thinking twice if the strategy fits. Bulk rares rarely appreciate unless they spike in a specific format, and nothing about the current meta suggests that's coming, so buy it to play it, not to hold it.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.