Volrath's Dungeon
Enchantment
Pay 5 life: Destroy this enchantment. Any player may activate this ability but only during their turn.
Discard a card: Target player puts a card from their hand on top of their library. Activate only as a sorcery.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- The List
- Price
- $0.25
- EDHREC rank
- #24102
Volrath's Dungeon lets you pay life and discard a land to tuck an opponent's creature on top of their library — a repeatable soft removal effect that doubles as land-discard fuel for The Gitrog Monster. The cost in life and card disadvantage is real, but in the right shell it's an engine piece, not a removal spell.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Volrath's Dungeon occupies a narrow but real niche: decks that actively want to discard lands will find it a cheap, repeatable way to remove problematic creatures while fueling their own engines. Legacy and Vintage have access to it, but the effect is too slow and the cost too steep to compete with Swords to Plowshares or Karakas in those formats. Oathbreaker mirrors Commander's verdict — playable only when the discard cost is a benefit, not a tax.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
The Gitrog MonsterDakmor SalvageVolrath's Dungeon
Infinite self-mill; Near-infinite self-discard triggers
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Price Context
Current price
$0.25 bulk tier
At $0.25, Volrath's Dungeon is pure bulk — easy to pick up as a throw-in trade or cheap single. Its price is unlikely to move significantly given the narrow application, but for The Gitrog Monster builds specifically, it punches well above its cost.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.