Desert Warfare
Desert Warfare: Enchantment, Modern Horizons 3 Commander. MTG card printings, market prices, rulings, and format legality on Mana Grove.
- Mana cost
- {3}{G}
- Mana value
- 4
- Type
- Enchantment
- Colour identity
- Green (G)
- Rarity
- Rare
- Set
- Modern Horizons 3 Commander (M3C)
- Released
- 2024-06-14
- Collector number
- 116
- Artist
- Alexandre Honoré
- Commander rank
- 7,557 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)
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About Desert Warfare
Desert Warfare is a Magic: The Gathering card, a rare green enchantment from Modern Horizons 3 Commander (M3C), a Commander product released in June 2024. It is collector number 116 in that set, with art by Alexandre Honoré. It costs {3}{G} (three generic and one green mana) to cast, for a mana value of 4. Its colour identity is green. It is legal in Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander and Oathbreaker. Modern Horizons 3 Commander is its only printing so far. The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $0.30 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-04).
Card text
Whenever you sacrifice a Desert and whenever a Desert card is put into your graveyard from your hand or library, put that card onto the battlefield under your control at the beginning of your next end step.
At the beginning of combat on your turn, if you control five or more Deserts, create that many 1/1 red, green, and white Sand Warrior creature tokens. They gain haste.
Market price
Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $0.30 (as of 2026-11-04).
The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.
Format legality
Legality of Desert Warfare by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.
| Legacy | Legal |
|---|---|
| Vintage | Legal |
| Commander | Legal |
| Duel Commander | Legal |
| Oathbreaker | Legal |
Other printings of Desert Warfare
The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.
| Printing | Rarity | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Modern Horizons 3 Commander (M3C) #64 | Rare | 2024 |
Official rulings
Two official rulings apply to Desert Warfare, newest first.
- If the Desert leaves your graveyard before the delayed triggered ability created by Desert Warfare's first ability resolves, that Desert won't be put onto the battlefield from its new zone when that ability resolves.
- Desert Warfare's first ability won't return any Deserts that you sacrificed or that were put into your graveyard from your hand or library before Desert Warfare entered the battlefield.
Similar cards
Other enchantment cards with a green colour identity, ranked by how often they appear in Commander decks.
In these precons
Desert Warfare is in the decklist of these preconstructed Commander decks.