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High Market

Land

A sacrifice outlet that lives in your manabase, and the design economy there is the whole point. Most outlets cost you a card and a slot on the battlefield; this one folds into a land that taps for colorless, asking nothing but the tap to fire. That tap matters: it is not a true free outlet in the engine sense (it cannot sacrifice an arbitrary number of creatures in a turn the way Viscera Seer or Ashnod's Altar can), so it is a security blanket rather than a combo enabler. What it sells is resilience. A creature worth more dead than alive (a death trigger, a recurring threat, anything the opponent wants to exile or bounce before its leaves-play value fires) can be sacrificed in response to a targeted spell, fizzling the removal and banking the trigger. The single point of life gain is incidental, a stated effect so the ability is not blank rather than a reason to play the card. The cost is the standard utility-land tax: a colorless source where a colored one might have served, and an activation that competes with the rest of your turn. For decks built on death triggers or creatures you would rather cash in than keep, that tax buys an outlet that cannot be answered without an opponent spending removal on a land, which is a trade few removal-heavy decks want to make.

High Market (mmq)
MMQ · #320rare
Pricing
Normal: $9.06
Foil: $156.00
Oracle Text

Rules text

Tap: Add Colorless mana. Tap, Sacrifice a creature: You gain 1 life.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
N/A
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
Legal
Historic
Legal
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
Legal
Standard Brawl
N/A
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
Legal
PreDH
Legal
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
Legal
Penny Dreadful
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
Legal
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