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Desecrated Earth
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
ZendikarZEN · #86
- Card type
- Sorcery
- Rarity
- Common
- Indicative price
- 0.06 € · ★ 0.23 € · 0.09 $ · ★ 0.19 $
- Mana value
- 5
- Colour
- Black
Card text
Destroy target land. Its controller discards a card.
Format legality
- CommanderLegal
- DuelLegal
- LegacyLegal
- ModernLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- PauperLegal
- PaupercommanderLegal
- PennyLegal
- PredhLegal
- VintageLegal
Legalities follow the imported catalogue; check format rules before a tournament.
Data imported on 2026-10-06 (UTC).
Indicative Scryfall prices, updated daily. ★: foil; ★ E: etched foil. EUR and USD represent different markets.
Printing information
- Illustrator
- Daarken
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 2009-10-02
Flavour text
"The land is swollen with mana, cursed relics, and secrets. If you puncture it, you never know what will burst out." —Javad Nasrin, Ondu relic hunter
Rulings
If the targeted land is an illegal target by the time Desecrated Earth resolves, the entire spell doesn’t resolve. No one discards a card.