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Rakdos Carnarium

Land

The bounce is the price, and the price is steeper than it reads. Tapping for both colors of a guild on a single land is exactly the fixing a two-color deck craves, but this one demands you return a land you already control before it does any work, costing you a full turn of development the way a karoo always does. Enters tapped, bounces a land, then taps for two: in practice you spend a turn to net nothing on your land count while gaining a second color of output. The returned land replays for value later, and shells built around landfall or land-recursion treat the bounce as an asset rather than a tax. The dual-color output also smooths color requirements in a way a single tapped dual cannot. This is the structural opposite of a fast-mana land: it slows you to make the rest of your manabase steadier, a trade that rewards grindy, long-game decks and punishes anything trying to curve out on schedule. The design has aged into a reliable budget answer for decks that can absorb the early stumble, which is exactly the population it was built for: midrange and control builds that would rather guarantee their colors on turn five than gamble on turn two.

Rakdos Carnarium (gk2)
GK2 · #77common
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Oracle Text

Rules text

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand. Tap: Add Black manaRed mana.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
Legal
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
Legal
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
N/A
Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
Legal
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