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Leechridden Swamp

Land — Swamp

A Swamp that bleeds. The trade is right there in the enters-tapped clause: you accept a turn of tempo loss up front, and in exchange the land becomes a slow drain engine that no creature removal can touch and no board wipe can answer. The black-permanent gate is the price of that immunity. With an empty board the land is just a tapped source of black mana, so it rewards a board of black nonland permanents before it does anything else. That same condition keeps it honest in two-color builds, where you might run several black sources and still never assemble the two permanents needed to switch it on. What makes the activation distinctive is its reach: it hits each opponent rather than one target, scaling the drain across a multiplayer table without ever costing a second card. The effect is small (one life at a time, one activation per untap), but it sits on a basic-typed land, which means it costs you no spell slot and survives anything short of land destruction. This is the lineage of the painless inevitability engine: a permanent that does nothing fast and everything eventually, parked in a slot you were already going to fill. The enters-tapped tax is what pays for stapling a repeatable life-drain onto a Swamp at no card cost.

Leechridden Swamp (hop)
HOP · #135uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.76
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Oracle Text

Rules text

(Tap: Add Black mana.) This land enters tapped. Black mana, Tap: Each opponent loses 1 life. Activate only if you control two or more black permanents.
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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