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Gods' Eye, Gate to the Reikai

Legendary Land

A colorless land that taps for one and leaves a body behind when it dies is a strange thing to call legendary, but the legend tag is the entire balancing act: only one copy can sit on the battlefield at a time, which caps how reliably a land-that-fights-back can stack value. The graveyard clause is where the design earns its keep. Most lands ask nothing and offer nothing past their mana; this one converts its own destruction into a 1/1 colorless Spirit, so the answer an opponent spends on it (a Strip Mine activation, a Wasteland, an edict that catches it after something else animates it) still hands you a creature. It turns land destruction into a wash rather than a tempo loss, which quietly rewards graveyard and sacrifice shells that want a permanent willing to die. The Spirit type is not incidental, either: it slots the token into the same tribal architecture early Kamigawa-era design built around colorless and Spirit synergies, giving an aristocrats or go-wide list a manabase slot that doubles as fodder. The rate is deliberately flat (one colorless, nothing more) because the value is back-loaded entirely onto leaving the battlefield, and that is the tension worth noticing: a land that is worse than a basic while it lives and better than one the moment it dies.

Gods' Eye, Gate to the Reikai (bok)
BOK · #164uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.89
Foil: $6.59
Oracle Text

Rules text

Tap: Add Colorless mana. When Gods' Eye is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, create 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
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
Legal
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