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Lazotep Archway

Land

Eternalize was built to bring dead creatures back as 4/4 black Zombie tokens, so bolting it onto a tapland is the kind of design gag that works only because the mechanic is coherent to begin with. The card taps for white or black, sits in the graveyard like any other spent land, and then climbs out for 3 generic manaWhite manaBlack mana as a 4/4 Zombie that sheds only its land type. The reminder text winks at the absurdity (that "don't forget it still enters tapped!" is not standard oracle phrasing), but the logic holds: a mana source that refuses to stay in the yard, converting a used land into a late-game body without costing a card from hand. The eternalize cost is a floor rather than a bargain, five mana at sorcery speed for a middling body, but because eternalize copies the full text box, the token keeps its Tap: Add White mana or Black mana line. The 4/4 still taps for mana. That is the quiet substance under the bit: a permanent most decks treat as inert once it hits the graveyard returns as both attacker and fixer, giving a color pair a mana base that answers back after it is gone. The premise is a Zombie-making keyword that has no business on a land; the execution is a land that keeps working once it is buried.

Lazotep Archway (mb2)
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Lazotep Archway enters the battlefield tapped. Tap: Add White mana or Black mana. Eternalize 3 generic manaWhite manaBlack mana (3 generic manaWhite manaBlack mana, Exile this card from your graveyard: Create a token that's a copy of it, except it's a 4/4 black Zombie creature and loses all other card types. Eternalize only as a sorcery. And don't forget it still enters tapped!)
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