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◇ Catalog #109

Choking Sands

DIGITAL ONLY

vma·#109·common·foil

Illus. Roger Raupp

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in vault

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for trade

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wishlisted

Jun '14

12 yr ago

Played in EDH

EDHrec rank #23,535 · Fringe play

Variants

Foil$0.04

Nonfoil$0.04

Gameplay

Sorcery

Destroy target non-Swamp land. If that land was nonbasic, Choking Sands deals 2 damage to the land's controller.

"The people wiped the sand from their eyes and cursed—and left the barren land to the hyenas and vipers." —Afari, *Tales*

Legalities

tlrlegal

duellegal

brawlnot legal

pennylegal

PreDH

Context

This printing is one of 3 catalogued treatments from VMA — the lineup includes Foil and Nonfoil alongside the standard finish. Across our catalog the Rarix library tracks every variant in the same family so collectors can compare price, scarcity and demand inside a single lineage.

Card #109 of *Vintage Masters*, the set that shipped alongside the June 2014 Vintage Masters release.

Card type: Sorcery, color identity black, printed at common. Commons fill the bulk of a booster pack's volume. Mana cost: {1}{B}{B} (3 converted).

Legal in Legacy, Vintage, Commander, and Pauper.

EDHrec ranks this card #23,535 in Commander, putting it in the fringe-play tier of the format's playable pool.

Illustrated by Roger Raupp. Rarix catalogs 129 other cards credited to this artist.