Hostile Desert
Hostile Desert: Land - Desert, Murders at Karlov Manor Commander. Tap: Add Colorless. Printings, market prices, rulings, and format legality on Mana Grove.
- Mana value
- 0
- Type
- Land - Desert
- Colour identity
- Colourless
- Rarity
- Rare
- Set
- Murders at Karlov Manor Commander (MKC)
- Released
- 2024-02-09
- Collector number
- 266
- Artist
- Josh Hass
- Commander rank
- 9,685 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)
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About Hostile Desert
Hostile Desert is a Magic: The Gathering card, a rare colourless land from Murders at Karlov Manor Commander (MKC), a Commander product released in February 2024. It is collector number 266 in that set, with art by Josh Hass. 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. It has been printed in 4 sets, from Hour of Devastation (2017) to Murders at Karlov Manor Commander (2024). The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $0.25 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-01).
Card text
{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, Exile a land card from your graveyard: This land becomes a 3/4 Elemental creature until end of turn. It's still a land.
Amonkhet's desiccated land thirsts for blood.
Market price
Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $0.25 (as of 2026-11-01).
The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.
Format legality
Legality of Hostile Desert 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 |
Other printings of Hostile Desert
Hostile Desert has been printed in 4 sets. The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.
| Printing | Rarity | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Commander 2020 (C20) #281 | Rare | 2020 |
| Hour of Devastation (HOU) #178 | Rare | 2017 |
| Hour of Devastation Promos (PHOU) #178s | Rare | 2017 |
Official rulings
Two official rulings apply to Hostile Desert, newest first.
- If Hostile Desert becomes a creature the same turn it enters the battlefield, you can't attack with it or tap it for mana.
- 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.
In these precons
Hostile Desert is in the decklist of these preconstructed Commander decks.
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