Lazotep Archway
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 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
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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.
