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Dwarven Mine

Land — Mountain

The dual-natured tapland with a payoff clause: sequence your Mountains right and it arrives untapped and hands you a body, sequence it wrong and it is a tapped land with a fancy name. That conditional carries the entire design. A land that always entered untapped and always made a Dwarf would be a free creature stapled to a red source, so the token trigger keys specifically to entering untapped, and entering untapped keys to already controlling three other Mountains. The reward pays out only once your manabase is deep enough that the extra turn spent on a tapland would not have cost you anything, so the requirement and the payout are calibrated to the same moment. It belongs to a run of nonbasic lands that carry a basic land type and a conditional value clause, letting a mono-color deck wring marginal upside out of an otherwise blank land slot without conceding real tempo; the trade is that you accept a tapped land early to bank a 1/1 later. The Mountain subtype is doing quiet work too: because this is a nonbasic that still counts as a Mountain, every red land-fetch and Mountain-count effect treats it as fuel, which is the difference between a narrow gimmick and a slot a red deck can actually run.

Dwarven Mine (plst)
PLST · #ELD-243common
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Normal: $0.19
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Oracle Text

Rules text

(Tap: Add Red mana.) This land enters tapped unless you control three or more other Mountains. When this land enters untapped, create a 1/1 red Dwarf creature token.
Legalities

Format Status

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