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Accursed Duneyard

Land

The tribal-lands tradition applied to a very specific corner of black's identity: the seven creature types that make up the classic undead-and-shadow cluster. Colorless mana is the price of admission, a land that plugs into any color's manabase without adding to it, and the second ability is why it exists at all. Regeneration is one of the oldest defensive keywords in the game, and it has always sat awkwardly on lands, because most regenerators want a shield stapled to a creature or an enchantment rather than a repeatable tap-and-pay from the manabase. Wiring it to a spread of graveyard-adjacent tribes (Shade, Skeleton, Specter, Spirit, Vampire, Wraith, Zombie) turns a colorless utility land into a standing insurance policy for the fragile pieces those tribes lean on: the lord you cannot afford to trade away, the death-trigger body you want back in combat. The window is the honest part. Regeneration is a destruction-replacement effect, so it answers combat trades and single-target removal, but it does nothing against exile, sacrifice, or bounce, which is where a modern board wipe increasingly lives, and each save costs a flat 2 generic mana plus the tap. What the card represents is a designer looking at seven tribes that share a graveyard-and-attrition flavor and building one utility land to service all of them at once, at the cost of a colored source and a real activation tax every time it matters.

Accursed Duneyard (drc)
DRC · #20rare
Pricing
Normal: $0.60
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Rules text

Tap: Add Colorless mana. 2 generic mana, Tap: Regenerate target Shade, Skeleton, Specter, Spirit, Vampire, Wraith, or Zombie. (The next time it would be destroyed this turn, instead tap it, remove it from combat, and heal all damage on it.)
Legalities

Format Status

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