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Lush Portico

Land — Forest Plains

The evolution of the tapland dual is a slow negotiation between fixing and card advantage. The bounce-lands gave you a mana boost at the cost of tempo; the gates gave you nothing but the tap; the cycling duals let you pitch the land when you no longer needed it. This one attaches surveil 1 to the enter-tapped clause, which is a smarter trade than it looks. Surveil is not raw card selection: you cannot draw the top card, only choose to bin it or leave it. But that binning is the point. In a deck that cares about its graveyard (delve, flashback, reanimation, delirium, or simply threshold-style payoffs), a land that fuels the yard for free while fixing two colors is doing two jobs on one card slot, and the enter-tapped drawback is exactly the window where a surveil trigger costs you nothing you weren't already paying. The design lesson embedded here is that a "drawback" and a "trigger" can be the same beat: you are already spending the tempo of a tapped land, so the surveil rides along on time you have already surrendered. That makes it a land that is close to free in decks with no graveyard interest and quietly excellent in decks that treat their graveyard as a resource. The Selesnya pairing is deliberate: green and white both have graveyard payoffs worth setting up, and both want their mana honest and untaxed.

Lush Portico (mkm)
MKM · #327rare
Pricing
Normal: $9.11
Foil: $19.42
Oracle Text

Rules text

(Tap: Add Green mana or White mana.) This land enters tapped. When this land enters, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
Legal
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
Legal
Historic
Legal
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
Legal
Standard Brawl
Legal
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
Legal
Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
Legal
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
Legal
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