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Immersturm Skullcairn

Land

A black source that ends the game, but only once and only on your own terms. Most utility lands willing to sacrifice themselves for damage settle for pinging a creature or shaving a few life; this one aims the full package at a player and staples a discard on top, converting a color source into both reach and a hand-strip. Two restrictions pay for that ambition. The first is the activation itself: 1 generic manaBlack manaRed manaRed mana on top of tapping and sacrificing the land, so you are committing four mana and a permanent to deal three and pull a card. The second is the sorcery clause, which matters as much as the mana math. There is no ambush, no end-step burst, no cracking it off a topdeck the turn the board is empty; it wants to be the deliberate act of a deck already ahead, turning a mid-game land that has stopped mattering into damage it would otherwise have no way to find. It enters tapped, so it charges tempo up front too, the standing tax for doing something no basic Swamp ever will. What it represents is the utility-land school that treats a land slot as a spell you never have to draw into: a permanent that quietly makes mana for most of a game and then, exactly once, declines to keep being a land.

Immersturm Skullcairn (khm)
KHM · #263uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.19
Foil: $0.13
Oracle Text

Rules text

This land enters tapped. Tap: Add Black mana. 1 generic manaBlack manaRed manaRed mana, Tap, Sacrifice this land: It deals 3 damage to target player. That player discards a card. Activate only as a sorcery.
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
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