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Mines of Moria

Legendary Land

A red source that punishes you for having nothing to lead: it enters tapped unless a legendary creature is already down, which quietly ties the land's tempo to a board state most red decks aren't building toward. That conditional is the price for a colored land in a slot that usually demands a basic, and it makes the card read less like fixing than like a payoff for a legendary-heavy shell. The graveyard sink underneath is the more distinctive machine, but it isn't ramp in the traditional sense: 3 generic manaRed mana, a tap, and three exiled cards buy two Treasure tokens, which is a net loss of mana the turn you fire it. What you're really doing is time-shifting. You spend now, in cards and in mana, to bank two Treasures that fix into any color and stay available across later turns. The exile clause is doing the balancing work: it forces the ability to compete with any other graveyard use you have and caps how many times a game can profitably feed it, so this never becomes a bottomless faucet. The design spends the resource nobody was spending (a stocked graveyard) to smooth the resource everyone fights over, at a pace slow enough that it rewards the long game rather than accelerating a fast one. The flavor lands cleanly: you dig too greedily and too deep, and the cost is measured in cards left behind.

Mines of Moria (ltr)
LTR · #708rare
Pricing
Normal: $5.40
Foil: $6.59
Oracle Text

Rules text

Mines of Moria enters tapped unless you control a legendary creature. Tap: Add Red mana. 3 generic manaRed mana, Tap, Exile three cards from your graveyard: Create two Treasure tokens.
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

Other printings

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