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Forbidden Orchard

Land

A rainbow land that hands your opponent a 1/1 Spirit every time you tap it sounds like a pure liability, and in any deck that just wants colored mana, it is one. The gift is the point, though. By manufacturing a guaranteed opposing body, the Spirit token satisfies an entire class of effects gated behind "an opponent controls a creature," and that precondition has made this the canonical setup land for several engines. Oath of Druids wants the opponent to have more creatures than you before it goes off; Defense of the Heart checks for three opposing creatures; edict and theft lines need a legal target to point at. Forbidding nothing of its own, the Orchard supplies all of those triggers on demand by authoring a board state for the other player. The fixing is real and gets used, but the Spirit is the engine, and a deck that runs this is built to capitalize on creatures it deliberately gives away. That inversion is the whole appeal of the design, a downside land that does you no favors in a vacuum and a great deal once the shell is constructed to exploit the very tokens crossing the table.

Forbidden Orchard (c16)
C16 · #296rare
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Tap: Add one mana of any color. Whenever you tap this land for mana, target opponent creates a 1/1 colorless Spirit creature token.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
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
Legal
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
N/A
Penny Dreadful
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
Legal
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