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Legions of Lim-Dûl

Creature — Zombie1 generic manaBlack manaBlack mana

Black's evasion lever has always been swampwalk, going back to the earliest landwalkers: an opponent on Swamps cannot block, full stop. This Zombie ties that reliable trick to a knot. Its unblockability fires only when the defending player controls a snow Swamp, a supertype that existed almost entirely inside one block's experimental manabase. So the body, a 2/3 for three, is the whole creature most of the time; the evasion clause sits dormant unless the opponent has chosen, or been compelled, to run snow lands. That narrows what was historically black's broadest evasion tool into something closer to a designed-in mirror tax: it asks the metagame around it to share a mechanical assumption before it threatens anything. The trouble is that snow was a flavor subtheme Wizards set aside for over a decade before reviving it in later sets, and evasion contingent on a supertype that mostly stopped seeing print ages into near-irrelevance. The card stands as a small case study in pricing an ability against an environmental condition the wider game never adopted: a creature whose signature trick is hostage to the opponent's land choices, and which only works in the climate that made those choices common.

Legions of Lim-Dûl (ice)
ICE · #142common
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Normal: $0.21
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Snow swampwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a snow Swamp.)
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
N/A
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
Legal
Brawl
N/A
Historic
N/A
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
N/A
Standard Brawl
N/A
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
Legal
PreDH
Legal
Pauper Commander
Legal
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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