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A-Skemfar Elderhall

Land

A green source with a Golgari sacrifice payoff stapled to the back end. Utility lands that tap for one color and then cash themselves in for a spell are a familiar Golgari trick, but the bundle here is aggressive: a targeted -2/-2 that clears a blocker or picks off a small threat, plus two Elf Warrior bodies, all from a single land slot. The "A-" rebalance tuned the activation cost, which tells you where the tension lived: the ability is a four-mana sorcery-speed sacrifice that demands double black, so it is deliberately gated to the point in a game where a spent land is a fair trade for board presence and reach. Note that the land itself only produces green; the double black comes from elsewhere, which means the payoff arrives late by design, once your base is deep enough to spare a color source. The entering-tapped clause is the tempo tax on the front half, paying for the fact that this dirt eventually swings a combat and rebuilds a board. What makes it more than a Forest with a rider is the timing lock: because the ability is sorcery-speed, you cannot hold it as a reactive answer, so the sacrifice is always a proactive commitment. The card asks you to know exactly when the green source stops mattering and the two-for-one starts, and to plan a turn ahead to have the mana ready when it does.

A-Skemfar Elderhall (khm)
KHM · #A-268uncommon
Oracle Text

Rules text

Skemfar Elderhall enters tapped. Tap: Add Green mana. 1 generic manaBlack manaBlack manaGreen mana, Tap, Sacrifice Skemfar Elderhall: Up to one target creature you don't control gets -2/-2 until end of turn. Create two 1/1 green Elf Warrior creature tokens. Activate only as a sorcery.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
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Legacy
N/A
Vintage
N/A
Commander
N/A
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
Legal
Historic
Legal
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
N/A
Standard Brawl
N/A
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
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Pauper Commander
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Oathbreaker
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Gladiator
N/A
Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
N/A
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
N/A
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