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Moxonomy

Hive of the Eye Tyrant

Land

The manland template gets one clean adjustment here, and it is the graveyard clause that gives the design its shape. A 3/3 with menace is already a body defenses have to double-block, but the attack trigger turns each swing into graveyard disruption you cannot easily interact with: exile a flashback card, a recursion target, delve fuel, a reanimation spell sitting in the yard. The four-mana activation is a real tempo commitment that keeps the threat honest, and the land enters tapped whenever you already control two or more others, so it pays its power down once your board has developed, when it would otherwise be pure upside. The result is a mana source that does nothing to your spell count but converts flooded draws into pressure plus attrition, drawing from the same manland lineage that stretches back through Mutavault and the Worldwake cycle. What separates this one is that its combat relevance is not just damage: it grinds the opponent's second resource, the graveyard, while it grinds their life total, which makes it quietly hostile to the exact archetypes that want a long game.

Hive of the Eye Tyrant (afr)
AFR · #258rare
Pricing
Normal: $0.41
Foil: $0.56
Oracle Text

Rules text

If you control two or more other lands, this land enters tapped. Tap: Add Black mana. 3 generic manaBlack mana: Until end of turn, this land becomes a 3/3 black Beholder creature with menace and "Whenever this creature attacks, exile target card from defending player's graveyard." It's still a land.
Legalities

Format Status

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

Other printings

3 sets
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