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Moxonomy

Minas Tirith

Legendary Land

A white source that pays you for going wide, which is a strange thing for a land to do. The mana line is unconditional: it always taps for one white, and it enters tapped only when you control no legendary creature, so any deck fielding a legendary body gets it online the turn it lands. The interesting clause gates a card draw behind combat. Spending one and white and tapping it draws a card, but only if you attacked with two or more creatures that turn, folding a card-advantage engine into a land slot for a go-wide aggressive deck. That gating is the whole balancing act: the draw is not a repeatable value tap you can fire on an empty board, it is a reward that arrives only after you have already committed bodies to combat. The land does nothing to stabilize a losing position and everything to snowball a winning one. It reads as an ordinary white source and turns out to be a payoff, the kind of land that asks the deckbuilder to earn its ceiling rather than handing it over. Utility lands that draw cards have historically had to justify their inclusion, since a nonbasic buys its slot with an ability that only sometimes matters. This one solves that by tying the draw to the exact board state a token or aggressive deck wants to reach anyway, so the condition and the game plan collapse into a single thing.

Minas Tirith (ltr)
LTR · #341rare
Pricing
Normal: $6.30
Foil: $8.05
Oracle Text

Rules text

Minas Tirith enters tapped unless you control a legendary creature. Tap: Add White mana. 1 generic manaWhite mana, Tap: Draw a card. Activate only if you attacked with two or more creatures this turn.
Legalities

Format Status

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

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