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Corrupted Crossroads

Land

Devoid was always going to need a manabase to support it, and this is the answer to a strange problem: how do you cast colorless spells that still cost colored mana? The first ability is the floor, a plain colorless tap any deck can use. The second is the whole reason the card exists: pay a life, get one mana of any color, but that mana evaporates unless it feeds a devoid spell. That restriction is what keeps the land from being a free five-color source. It is a Mana Confluence with the rainbow locked behind a single mechanic, which means its value scales directly with how many devoid cards accompany it and collapses to "an off-color colorless source" the moment they leave the deck. The design is unusually honest about its own ceiling: it cannot fix for anything outside that one card pool, so it never has to be reined in elsewhere to pay for the flexibility. What makes it more than a niche fixer is the structural neatness of the constraint. Devoid spells read as colorless on the stack but were built with colored pips in their costs; this land squares that circle by producing the colors while refusing to let them wander anywhere a non-devoid spell could spend them. It is a fixing source that only works for the exact cards it was printed alongside, and outside that lane it quietly reverts to a Wastes with extra text.

Corrupted Crossroads (ogw)
OGW · #169rare
Pricing
Normal: $0.12
Foil: $0.68
Oracle Text

Rules text

Tap: Add Colorless mana. (Colorless mana represents colorless mana.) Tap, Pay 1 life: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast a spell with devoid.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
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
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
Legal
Printings elsewhere

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