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Moxonomy

Restless Ridgeline

Land

Where the rest of this creature-land cycle wants a body that wins on its own, this one is built as a force multiplier for a board already on the attack. The tell is the trigger: animate it, swing, and another attacking creature gets +2/+0 and untaps. That untap clause is the quiet part. Most creature-lands never touch it, and here it means the buffed attacker keeps its untapped status for the crack-back, so a threat that swung in still holds coverage on defense. The trigger only reaches creatures already attacking, though; there is no pulling a home-guarding blocker into the assault. What it rewards is a wide, committed board rather than a single haymaker. The enters-tapped clause and the 2 generic manaRed manaGreen mana animation cost are the visible toll, but the sharper price is that this land has no vigilance: to attack, it must tap, which means the turn you cash in the trigger is a turn you have surrendered its mana. You are not spending its mana and swinging with it both. You are choosing the swing over the color. A 3/4 for four mana is a modest body; the design bets the value is in the sequencing around it, in the untap and the pump handed to a creature that was already going to connect, not in the Dinosaur it briefly becomes. That is a board state you assemble across several turns, not one you topdeck.

Restless Ridgeline (lci)
LCI · #283rare
Pricing
Normal: $0.48
Foil: $0.67
Oracle Text

Rules text

This land enters tapped. Tap: Add Red mana or Green mana. 2 generic manaRed manaGreen mana: This land becomes a 3/4 red and green Dinosaur creature until end of turn. It's still a land. Whenever this land attacks, another target attacking creature gets +2/+0 until end of turn. Untap that creature.
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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