Grasping Dunes
Grasping Dunes: Land - Desert, Amonkhet. Tap: Add Colorless. 1, Tap, Sacrifice this land: Put a -1/-1 counter on target creature. On Mana Grove.
- Mana value
- 0
- Type
- Land - Desert
- Colour identity
- Colourless
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Set
- Amonkhet (AKH)
- Released
- 2017-04-28
- Collector number
- 244
- Artist
- Daarken
- Commander rank
- 7,692 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)
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About Grasping Dunes
Grasping Dunes is a Magic: The Gathering card, an uncommon colourless land from Amonkhet (AKH), an expansion set released in April 2017. It is collector number 244 in that set, with art by Daarken. As a land, it has no mana cost. It has no colour identity. It is legal in Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander, Oathbreaker and Penny Dreadful. Amonkhet is its only printing so far. The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $0.27 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-02).
Card text
{T}: Add {C}.
{1}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Put a -1/-1 counter on target creature. Activate only as a sorcery.
Market price
Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $0.27 (as of 2026-11-02).
The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.
Format legality
Legality of Grasping Dunes by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.
| Pioneer | Legal |
|---|---|
| Modern | Legal |
| Legacy | Legal |
| Vintage | Legal |
| Commander | Legal |
| Duel Commander | Legal |
| Oathbreaker | Legal |
| Penny Dreadful | Legal |
Official rulings
One official ruling applies to Grasping Dunes.
- Desert is a land subtype with no special meaning. It doesn’t grant the land an intrinsic mana ability. Other cards may care about which lands are Deserts.
Similar cards
Other land cards with no colour identity, ranked by how often they appear in Commander decks.