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Rabanastre, Royal City

Land — Town

The Town subtype dresses this up as something bespoke, but functionally it belongs to the oldest fixing lineage in the game: the tapped dual land that trades a tempo hit for a free color combination. This is the exact template the taplands before it established, stripped of any conditional untap or pay-life-to-untap upside. Enters tapped, taps for red or white, no shocking, no scry, no gainland trigger to soften the blow. What makes the shape interesting is not the rate (that ceiling was set decades ago) but the deliberate austerity of it: no fetchability granted by a basic type, no drawback beyond the enters-tapped tempo cost. That austerity is a design decision, a fixing land priced for accessibility rather than tuned to fight the enters-tapped tax that has kept plain dual taplands out of serious constructed manabases since the untapped alternatives arrived. As a Boros source it does its one job cleanly, and the flavor treatment (a named royal city rendered as a walkable place rather than a symbolic gate) is where the printing spends its ambition, not on the mana ability, which is as conservative as fixing gets.

Rabanastre, Royal City (fin)
FIN · #287common
Pricing
Normal: $0.19
Foil: $0.27
Oracle Text

Rules text

This land enters tapped. Tap: Add Red mana or White mana.
Legalities

Format Status

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