Skip to content
Moxonomy

Avengers Tower

Land

The color mana this taps for comes with a leash: it casts Hero spells and feeds Hero abilities, and nothing else. That restriction is what keeps the design coherent rather than an unconditional five-color land bolted onto a zero-cost body. A land that produces one mana of any color for no investment would be a fixer every color-hungry deck would want, so the design fences off where the mana can go instead of taxing what it costs, leaving the colorless tap as the unrestricted escape hatch for everything outside the tribe. The result is fully open only to the deck it was built around and merely a colorless source to anyone else. The late-game selection ability is cut from the same cloth: four mana to dig three deep for a Hero card of any type, so once your curve is spent the land stops being a fixer and turns into a card-finder for the tribe's payoffs. This is a well-worn shape for tribal lands, a fixer-plus-selection engine that rewards only the creatures and spells sharing its named type, but the zero-cost color access is pushed further than most of the archetype's predecessors, which usually asked for a comes-into-play tax or a life payment to unlock their fixing. The whole card is a study in handing a tribe premium mana without letting that mana bleed into every other strategy that would happily abuse it.

Avengers Tower (msh)
MSH · #452uncommon
Pricing
Normal:
Foil: $0.82
Oracle Text

Rules text

Tap: Add Colorless mana. Tap: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast a Hero spell or to activate an ability of a Hero source. 4 generic mana, Tap: Look at the top three cards of your library. You may reveal a Hero card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.
Legalities

Format Status

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