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Great Arashin City

Land

The Abzan color triad wired into a single tapland: it fixes toward black, but its untapped condition asks for the green or white half of the wedge, and its activated ability converts dead creatures into bodies for one generic and one black mana. That last clause is the reason it earns a slot beyond fixing. Most utility lands that generate value ask only for mana and a tap; this one demands you feed it a creature card from the graveyard each time, exiling it permanently. The dead pile becomes a resource with a floor: every mill, every sacrifice, every attacker that trades leaves behind fuel for another Spirit, and the exile cost means the land quietly cannibalizes its own recursion, so decks leaning on it can't also loop the same creatures back. It is slow (two mana on top of the tap per activation), and it wants a board that refills the graveyard faster than it empties. But an engine that keeps churning out blockers and fodder for as long as the dead pile holds is one that survives board wipes, because the source is the land itself, not the tokens it makes. The design threads a real needle: color fixing that shores up a three-color base, plus a mana sink that turns the graveyard into a repeatable token stream, folded into a card that costs nothing to include and asks only for the right basics nearby.

Great Arashin City (ptdm)
PTDM · #257srare
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Oracle Text

Rules text

This land enters tapped unless you control a Forest or a Plains. Tap: Add Black mana. 1 generic manaBlack mana, Tap, Exile a creature card from your graveyard: Create a 1/1 white Spirit creature token.
Legalities

Format Status

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

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