Badlands
Badlands: Land - Swamp Mountain, Summer Magic / Edgar. MTG card printings, market prices, rulings, and format legality on Mana Grove.
- Mana value
- 0
- Type
- Land - Swamp Mountain
- Colour identity
- Black and red (BR)
- Rarity
- Rare
- Set
- Summer Magic / Edgar (SUM)
- Released
- 1994-06-21
- Collector number
- 282
- Artist
- Rob Alexander
- Commander rank
- 384 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)
- Reserved List
- Yes
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About Badlands
Badlands is a Magic: The Gathering card, a rare colourless land from Summer Magic / Edgar (SUM), a core set released in June 1994. It is collector number 282 in that set, with art by Rob Alexander. As a land, it has no mana cost. Its colour identity is black and red. It is legal in Legacy, Vintage, Old School, Commander, Duel Commander, Oathbreaker and PreDH. It has been printed in 14 sets, from Limited Edition Alpha (1993) to Vintage Masters (2014). It is on the Reserved List. The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $0.02 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-12).
Card text
({T}: Add {B} or {R}.)
Market price
Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $0.02 (as of 2026-11-12).
The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.
Format legality
Legality of Badlands by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.
| Legacy | Legal |
|---|---|
| Vintage | Legal |
| Old School | Legal |
| Commander | Legal |
| Duel Commander | Legal |
| Oathbreaker | Legal |
| PreDH | Legal |
Other printings of Badlands
Badlands has been printed in 14 sets. The 12 most recent other printings are listed here, newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.
| Printing | Rarity | Year |
|---|---|---|
| 30th Anniversary Edition (30A) #273 | Rare | 2022 |
| 30th Anniversary Edition (30A) #570 | Rare | 2022 |
| Legacy Championship (OLGC) #2016NA | Special | 2016 |
| Magic Online Promos (PRM) #43600 | Rare | 2014 |
| Vintage Masters (VMA) #291 | Rare | 2014 |
| Masters Edition IV (ME4) #241 | Rare | 2011 |
| Masters Edition II (ME2) #225 | Rare | 2008 |
| Revised Edition (3ED) #282 | Rare | 1994 |
| Foreign Black Border (FBB) #282 | Rare | 1994 |
| Collectors' Edition (CED) #278 | Rare | 1993 |
| Intl. Collectors' Edition (CEI) #278 | Rare | 1993 |
| Unlimited Edition (2ED) #278 | Rare | 1993 |
Official rulings
Four official rulings apply to Badlands, newest first.
- This has basic land types, but it isn't a basic land. Things that affect basic lands don't affect it. Things that affect basic land types do.
- This has the mana abilities associated with both of its basic land types.
- This card is a Mountain and a Swamp even while in the graveyard, library, or any other zone.
- Land type changing effects that change a dual land's land type will remove the old land types completely. Text-changing effects that just change one of the two land types will leave the other type unaffected.
Similar cards
Other land cards with a black and red colour identity, ranked by how often they appear in Commander decks.
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