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Grim Backwoods

Land

A sacrifice outlet priced like an enchantment but printed on a land, which is the structural trick the whole card turns on. The colorless mana it taps for is a courtesy; nobody slots this for ramp. What matters is the four-mana Golgari tax wrapped around a card-draw engine, and that activation cost is the governor on the whole thing: you pay full Black-Green freight every time you convert a body into a card, so the loop never spirals into free Jund value. The land only earns its place in builds that are already bleeding creatures by design (token swarms, recursive fodder, anything hungry for death triggers). The cleverest part of the design is the chassis itself: bolting the sacrifice engine onto a land means it survives every board wipe that clears the creatures it eats. The outlet outlives its own fuel and sits ready when the next wave of bodies arrives, which is the payoff for swallowing such a punishing activation. A slow, deliberate piece: it rarely does more than tap for mana on the turn it first comes down, and rewards a long game where the graveyard is treated as a resource rather than a dead zone.

Grim Backwoods (c20)
C20 · #278rare
Pricing
Normal: $0.25
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Tap: Add Colorless mana. 2 generic manaBlack manaGreen mana, Tap, Sacrifice a creature: Draw a card.
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
N/A
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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