First printed in Torment (2002)

Rancid Earth

Sorcery

Destroy target land.
Threshold — If there are seven or more cards in your graveyard, instead destroy that land and Rancid Earth deals 1 damage to each creature and each player.

Illustrated by: Ciruelo

Legality

Legal in: Legacy, Vintage, Pauper, Premodern, Commander, Duel Commander, Pauper Commander, PreDH, Tiny Leaders, Oathbreaker
Not legal in: Standard, Pioneer, Modern, Future Standard, Historic, Timeless, Alchemy, Penny Dreadful, Old School 93/94, Gladiator, Brawl, Standard Brawl, Competitive Brawl

Prices

MTGO price: 0.69 TIX, the cheapest non-foil print (average sell price on GoatBots, 31 Oct 2026).

Pauper In 26 of 2149 decks (1.2%), most in UB (unclassified)

Share of decks

1.2%

= vs previous 30 days

Weekly, last 90 days

Decks

10 main, 26 sideboard

Avg. copies

2.2

in the main deck

Win rate

54%

3 top 8 (challenges only)

Archetypes by metagame share

Archetype	Meta	Play it
UB (unclassified)	8.9%	1%
Golgari Gardens	2.0%	42%
BG (unclassified)	1.2%	16%
WB (unclassified)	0.3%	14%
Mono-Black (unclassified)	0.2%	50%

Played together with

Card	Together	Lift
Desert	100%	50.0
Defile	100%	41.3
Crypt Rats	100%	40.5
Khalni Garden	100%	23.9
Fanatical Offering	100%	17.6
Tithing Blade // Consuming Sepulcher	100%	14.6
Eviscerator's Insight	100%	13.3
Ichor Wellspring	100%	11.0
Lembas	100%	10.5
Campfire	100%	9.1

Best win rate

Deck	Record
Golgari Gardens __Noob__ in Pauper Challenge 32	8-1 89%
Golgari Gardens __Noob__ in Pauper Challenge 32	6-2 75%
Golgari Gardens BrunoGuerra in Pauper Challenge 32	4-2 67%
Golgari Gardens __Noob__ in Pauper Challenge 32	5-3 63%
Golgari Gardens __Noob__ in Pauper Challenge 32	3-3 50%
Golgari Gardens __Noob__ in Pauper Challenge 32	3-3 50%
Golgari Gardens __Noob__ in Pauper Challenge 32	3-3 50%
UB Gernardi in Pauper Challenge 32	3-3 50%

Challenges only: MTGO publishes only the 5-0 league decks.

Latest decks

Deck	Copies	Finish
BG __Noob__, 29 Oct	4 side	#31 of 51 2-4
Golgari Gardens __Noob__, 26 Oct	2 main 2 side	#22 of 51 3-3
Golgari Gardens __Noob__, 25 Oct	2 main 2 side	#20 of 55 3-3
Mono-Black Uagli1, 24 Oct	2 main 2 side	#21 of 33 2-2
Mono-Black __Noob__, 22 Oct	2 main 2 side	#28 of 44 2-3
Golgari Gardens BrunoGuerra, 19 Oct	3 side	#17 of 56 4-2
Golgari Gardens OttoSaske, 19 Oct	1 side	#32 of 56 2-3
BG __Noob__, 19 Oct	4 side	5-0

Premodern In 2 of 768 decks (0.3%), most in BR (unclassified)

Share of decks

0.3%

▲ 0.3 vs previous 30 days