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Restless Anchorage

Land

The design problem creature-lands have always faced is that the safest ones are boring: a land that becomes a beater is only interesting if the beater does something beyond hit. This one answers by attaching value to the swing itself, not the connection. The Map token is minted whenever the land attacks, regardless of whether it gets through or gets chumped, which changes the calculus entirely: declaring an attack is enough to bank the resource. That token then pushes a creature to explore, either revealing a land to keep in hand or growing a body with a counter, so animating and attacking becomes a slow filtering engine that runs even into a wall of blockers. The flying 2/3 is built for evasion, not brawling, which is why the trigger matters more than the size: you are not committing to a race, you are converting idle mana into repeatable dig across a long game. That reframing is the point of the generation these belong to. Older manlands (the Raging Ravines and Celestial Colonnades of the world) were pure threats that happened to survive sweepers; this line pays you extra just for taking the risk of animating and swinging. The white-blue pairing leans that identity toward control and midrange shells that want their lands doing double duty without diluting the spell count. The enters-tapped clause is the standing tax on nonbasics that ask for a real activation cost later: a turn of tempo up front for the payoff waiting downstream.

Restless Anchorage (plci)
PLCI · #280srare
Pricing
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Foil: $1.66
Oracle Text

Rules text

This land enters tapped. Tap: Add White mana or Blue mana. 1 generic manaWhite manaBlue mana: Until end of turn, this land becomes a 2/3 white and blue Bird creature with flying. It's still a land. Whenever this land attacks, create a Map token.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
Legal
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
Legal
Historic
Legal
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
Legal
Standard Brawl
Legal
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
Legal
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
Legal
Printings elsewhere

Other printings

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