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Gruul Turf

Land

Two lands for the price of one battlefield slot, paid in tempo: it enters tapped and hands a land back to you, so the turn it arrives is a turn you stand still. The arithmetic is what earns the run. Replaying the bounced land means this counts as two lands in your topdeck math while occupying a single slot, smoothing draws across a long game even as it stalls the opening turns. That tradeoff defines the cycle these belong to: a deck willing to absorb an early stumble gets fixing that asks for no shocks paid and no painlands carving life off the total. The bounce clause also opens a quiet seam of value, but a narrow one: it does nothing for fetchlands (which are sacrificed, not returned) or creature-lands (whose abilities work without leaving the battlefield). The real partners are lands that earn something on the way in, like Bojuka Bog's graveyard exile, or lands you'd want to replay for a one-shot effect. For the red-green pairing specifically, the fixing matters less for splash-greedy decks and more for the heavy demand of two committed pips: this color pair spends aggressively and rarely wants its mana arriving a turn late, a tension this land never fully resolves. It is fixing built for the grind, in colors that often do not want to grind.

Gruul Turf (2x2)
2X2 · #407uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $3.17
Foil: $3.40
Oracle Text

Rules text

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand. Tap: Add Red manaGreen mana.
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
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
Legal
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