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Lazotep Quarry

Land — Desert

Most utility lands ask you to spend the mana they make; this one asks you to spend the creatures around it. The middle line turns a creature on the battlefield into any color, ordinary sacrifice-for-fixing dressed up as an outlet. The third ability is where the type line earns its keep. For X plus two, tapping the land, and sacrificing any Desert you control, you dig a dead creature out of the graveyard and rebuild it as a 4/4 black Zombie copy: not the original card, but a body that keeps the useful triggers and shape while gaining a fixed frame. The X gate ties the cost to the creature's mana value, so cheap value engines come back for pennies while the big finishers stay expensive, and the sorcery-speed clause keeps the whole thing off the stack during combat and end steps. Sacrificing a Desert is the quiet tax that keeps the engine bounded: you can spend some other Desert as fuel and leave this land standing to fire again, or eat the Quarry itself and lose the machine, so every activation is a choice about which piece of your manabase you are willing to burn. Taken together it reads as a graveyard toolbox stapled to a mana source, the kind of engine that wants a board full of creatures it does not mind losing twice and Zombie payoffs that do not care what the reanimated body used to be named.

Lazotep Quarry (m3c)
M3C · #131rare
Pricing
Normal: $4.97
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Tap: Add Colorless mana. Tap, Sacrifice a creature: Add one mana of any color. X generic mana2 generic mana, Tap, Sacrifice a Desert: Exile target creature card with mana value X from your graveyard. Create a token that's a copy of it, except it's a 4/4 black Zombie. Activate only as a sorcery.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
N/A
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
N/A
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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