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Geothermal Bog

Land — Swamp Mountain

The dual land whose only cost is a turn of tempo. It taps for either color of its two-color pair and asks nothing in return except that it arrive tapped, which is the whole tax: no life payment like the painlands, no shockland trade of two life for immediacy, no basic-type check like the original duals or the fetch-friendly Ravnica lands. That places it in the plainest tier of two-color fixing, the tapped-dual template that has appeared in nearly every color pairing across dozens of sets, and its type line does the quiet work: being both a Swamp and a Mountain means it registers for any effect that fetches or cares about those basic types, so a card that goes and gets a Swamp will happily grab this instead. The design logic is deck-slot arithmetic rather than power: the enters-tapped clause is a smoothing cost paid on curve, most painless in decks that already want to sit back early and most punishing in the aggressive shells that can least afford to skip a turn-one play. It is fixing for people who are not in a hurry, and the honesty of that trade is the entire pitch.

Geothermal Bog (dmu)
DMU · #247common
Pricing
Normal: $0.27
Foil: $0.33
Oracle Text

Rules text

(Tap: Add Black mana or Red mana.) This land enters tapped.
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
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
Legal
Printings elsewhere

Other printings

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