MTG Salvation

In a vacuum, this is like Archway Commons, which is a very weak card. The powerful part of the card is that it is fetchable. It also provides instant domain for decks that care about that.

Sadly, this is a silver-bordered card, but the card does nothing that would prevent it being printed in black border.

I think the tax + ETB tapped is massive and makes the card close to unplayable.
There’d have to be cards that are really broken with domain for me to consider it.
What exists now doesn’t come close.
Fun tho

Edit: Oh wait, does this give you auto tron? Add 3 colourless mana to your mana pool?

The tax on entering battlefield is too taxing for a land.

I wouldn't play this card even if it is eternal legal.

A 5C land that any fetch grabs is pretty funny, but I think you need to care about other types before it’s worth the cost, and most cubes don’t. Mechanically it is 100% black border, the acorn here is purely a powerlevel thing.

I think this is a sweet card. Honestly would run in a low power level or peasant cube instead of like, Terramorphic Expanse/Evolving Wilds/Ash Barrens or whatever despite the etb tax.

You get to use cool gate synergy stuff like Crackling Perimeter and Gates Ablaze which are -incredible- if supported, (Though its awful with Circuitous Route which saddens me), you could have a bunch of these in the pool and a single copy of each Urza's land and a Cloudpost as a reason to do Workshop/Academy style decks without breaking peasant for a Workshop or Academy. Instant Domain. And its so easy to tutor so you will get to do those cool things in games, all with the cost of "I am running generic fixing lands in my cube".

Sure, I'd prefer if it came in untapped or didn't have the tax, but even so it's cool enough that I want to restart my abortive attempt at a battlecruiser-style peasant cube around 8 copies of this.

Boy, if this just entered tapped (or just required the tax when it ETB'ed, which would let you sort of pass off the ETB tapped clause onto another land) it would be really interesting, but as is, it's just a fetchable rupture spire most of the time, which doesn't excite me. Maybe if you're trying to make Tron work in your cube somehow....

So close. I just wish I could pay life rather than that 1 mana.

I could live with ETB tapped and 2 life lost, but the mana payment kills it.

They really seem to have been worried this would break something.

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So close. I just wish I could pay life rather than that 1 mana.

I could live with ETB tapped and 2 life lost, but the mana payment kills it.

They really seem to have been worried this would break something.

It's not legal in eternal format. I doubt it would matter too much if it would break something lol. There are worst offenders.