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Processing Plant

Land — Ulamog's Power-Plant

Most mill and processing designs treat exile as a one-way dump: cards go out there and stay there. This land takes the rarer stance of building exile as a resource with an escape hatch, and the entry trigger is a genuine fork rather than a stapled-on bonus. Either you take a card an opponent owns out of exile and drop it into their graveyard (which untaps the land, so your mana comes online immediately), or you decline, exile the top card of each opponent's library, and leave the land tapped. The first mode rewards decks already banking cards in exile: you cash one back while keeping your development on schedule. The second is the slower attrition line, growing the exile zone now to be mined later, at the cost of a turn's tempo. Fixing across white, blue, black, and colorless is what ties the whole thing to processor strategies, where each face-up card out in exile is a lever waiting to be pulled and the color spread keeps a value engine running while it does. The tension lives entirely in that choice on entry: untap now by giving something back, or hoard for a future turn and eat the tap. That two-way relationship with the exile zone puts it in a different category from the mill-and-forget effects it superficially resembles.

Processing Plant (mb2)
MB2 · #617rare
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Processing Plant enters the battlefield tapped. When Processing Plant enters the battlefield, you may put a card an opponent owns from exile into that player's graveyard. If you do, untap Processing Plant. Otherwise, exile the top card of each opponent's library. Tap: Add White mana, Blue mana, Black mana, or Colorless mana.
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