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Moxonomy

Field of the Dead

Land

The word that governs this card is "different." Not seven lands, seven lands with different names, and that single constraint is what turns a nothing land into a payoff engine. Ramp decks already want to hit land drops; this asks them to hit distinct ones, which quietly punishes the usual glut of untapped duplicates and rewards a manabase of one-ofs, utility lands, and fetchable basics that each count separately. The reward compounds in a way most token-makers do not: because the trigger fires on every land entering, a single fetchland can crack for a basic and net two Zombies in a turn once the threshold is live, and each land after that arrives with a 2/2 stapled to it. That escalation is why it is so powerful: a colorless win condition that costs no cards, demands no combat setup, and closes games by attrition through nothing but playing the lands you were already going to play. The line between "harmless tapped land" and "the deck wins by itself" is drawn entirely by that seventh differently-named land, and once you are over it, every future land drop is a body. It is one of the cleaner illustrations of how a lands-matter payoff can rewrite what a manabase is for: the mana becomes secondary, and the diversity of names becomes the actual resource being accumulated.

Field of the Dead (slc)
SLC · #6rare
Pricing
Normal: $28.87
Foil: $30.01
Oracle Text

Rules text

This land enters tapped. Tap: Add Colorless mana. Whenever this land or another land you control enters, if you control seven or more lands with different names, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
Banned
Modern
Banned
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
Banned
Historic
Banned
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
Legal
Standard Brawl
N/A
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
Banned
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
Legal
Printings elsewhere

Other printings

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