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Insomnia, Crown City

Land — Town

The Town subtype is new dressing on the oldest fixing template in the game: a tapland that produces one of two colors and nothing more. What earns the slot is the color pair itself. Orzhov's dual lands have long skewed toward the ones that do extra work (drain a life, gain a life, filter a card), which makes the plain version scarce in an era where entering tapped is supposed to buy you something. Here it buys nothing but the fixing, and that austerity is the point: this is the floor of the white-black manabase, the land you run when you need both enemy colors and cannot pay a shockland's two life or accept a checkland's tempo hiccup when it fails to find a basic. The tapped clause is the entire cost, paid up front on the turn you play it, and in exchange the land carries zero downside from then on. That trade (one tempo hit now for clean, unconditional fixing forever) is the quiet backbone of two-color decks that would rather spend their card slots on threats than on lands that ask questions. Pairing white and black on a single untap has never been trivial: they sit on opposite sides of the color pie, and every dual that bridges them is doing something the game once treated as a cost. This one just pays that cost flatly, once, and gets out of the way.

Insomnia, Crown City (fin)
FIN · #282common
Pricing
Normal: $0.24
Foil: $0.24
Oracle Text

Rules text

This land enters tapped. Tap: Add White mana or Black mana.
Legalities

Format Status

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