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Moxonomy

Okina, Temple to the Grandfathers

Legendary Land

The pump ability is the tell that this land was built for a world that ran on legendary creatures. Each member of this cycle taps for one color and bolts on a second activated ability keyed to the legendary subtype, so the green entry naturally got the combat boost: spend Green mana, tap, and bump a legendary attacker or blocker by a point in each direction through the end of the turn. A land that can swing a combat math problem or push the last point of damage through, all without touching a spell slot, is a free roll whenever you have a legend on the board to point it at. What pays for that upside is not the legendary rider but the supertype on the card itself: as a legendary land it bows to the legend rule, so two copies cannot coexist on your battlefield, and as a nonbasic it sits outside the basic-land package entirely. That is the real ceiling on a card that would otherwise read as a Forest with a bonus. In a legends-matters shell the pump is live; in any other deck it is simply a green source whose second line never comes up. The deal a good utility land offers is exactly this: nothing lost when the rider is dead, real value when it is not.

Okina, Temple to the Grandfathers (chk)
CHK · #280rare
Pricing
Normal: $4.50
Foil: $61.99
Oracle Text

Rules text

Tap: Add Green mana. Green mana, Tap: Target legendary creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.
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
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
Legal
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