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Grixis Illusionist

Creature — Human WizardBlue mana

A one-mana fixer that never makes mana directly: the tap ability rewrites the basic land type of a land you already control, so a land tapped after the change produces mana of the type you named. That indirection is the entire design. It only ever touches your own lands, which means this is fixing for you, not a service for the table, but the more interesting consequence is everything that cares about land types rather than mana. Anything keyed to whether you control a Swamp, an Island, or a Mountain can be switched on by a single activation, turning a corner of color correction into a setup tool for off-color payoffs that have nothing to do with producing mana at all. The 1/1 Wizard body keeps the trade honest: it is cheap, it dies to a stiff breeze, and it fixes one land per turn rather than dumping a dual onto the table all at once. That is the bargain the whole lineage of land-type manipulators makes, swapping the reliability of a tapped dual for repeatability and a creature on board. It sits in an odd corner of design where the creature does not ramp or produce mana but reshapes what your existing lands are, and the payoff comes from the relabeling, not the resource.

Grixis Illusionist (con)
CON · #29common
Pricing
Normal: $0.09
Foil: $0.19
Oracle Text

Rules text

Tap: Target land you control becomes the basic land type of your choice until end of turn.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
Legal
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
Legal
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
N/A
Penny Dreadful
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
Legal
Printings elsewhere

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