Yawning Fissure
Sorcery
Each opponent sacrifices a land of their choice.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Magic 2010
- Price
- $0.04
- EDHREC rank
- #28192
Yawning Fissure makes every opponent sacrifice a land — in a four-player game, that's three lands gone for five mana at sorcery speed. That rate is too slow and too symmetry-blind to earn a slot in competitive lists, but it does something measurable the turn it resolves.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Yawning Fissure is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but it sees essentially no play outside of casual Commander. In Pauper the card is technically legal but five-mana sorceries that don't affect the board state beyond land destruction don't meet the format's efficiency bar. Commander is the only context where hitting three opponents simultaneously makes the math feel remotely acceptable, and even there, a single basic land per player rarely changes the game on turn five.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.04 bulk tier
At $0.04, Yawning Fissure is deep bulk — the kind of card you pull from a common box without thinking twice. That price reflects demand accurately and isn't going anywhere.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.