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Kazandu Refuge

Land

A guaranteed both-colors source whose only cost is showing up a turn late. The tapland-with-lifegain template strips dual-color fixing to its plainest shape: no basic-land-type to enable or deny, no condition to satisfy, no late-game liability when it lands flooded. It always arrives tapped, but from the next turn onward it produces either color without complaint, and it never asks anything of you again. The single point of life it gains on arrival is small enough to be incidental and consistent enough to matter across a long game; against an aggressive opener it can be the difference between stabilizing on time and stabilizing a turn too late. What makes this design durable is that it asks nothing of you beyond patience. That floor is why this family of fixing has been reprinted across colors and editions long after splashier dual cycles came and went: it is the safe, slow option that two-color decks fall back on when they want their mana to simply work. The Gruul pairing puts red's reach and green's ramp on the same untyped source whose virtue is that it never asks to be thought about twice. The tempo concession is real, but it is a one-time tax, levied as the land comes down and never collected again.

Kazandu Refuge (plst)
PLST · #C18-261uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.34
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Oracle Text

Rules text

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, you gain 1 life. Tap: Add Red mana or Green mana.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
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
N/A
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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