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Retreat to Valakut

Enchantment2 generic manaRed mana

The landfall-aggro enchantment that turns each land drop into a combat choice. When a land enters, you pick a single mode: either the +2/+0 pump to force damage through a clogged race, or the can't-block clause to peel away one defender so a swing connects. Each trigger is one land, one choice, one target, with mode and target chosen as it goes on the stack: that per-land cadence is the tell about the deck this wants. In a shell packing extra fetches, ramp, or land-recursion that drops two or three sources in a single turn, the enchantment stops being a slow permanent and becomes a repeatable stream of triggers, each stacking its own decision. The narrowness is deliberate. Nothing here touches your hand or your board on its own; the card sits inert until you have both lands to drop and creatures to point them at, and every mode grants power or removes a blocker, never adding toughness, so it wins races without ever surviving a blocking exchange. That absence of toughness is the leash that keeps it an attacker's tool rather than a defensive one. It rewards the exact behavior a red landfall deck already wants (sequencing lands aggressively) and converts that sequencing into the reach red normally has to buy with burn.

Retreat to Valakut (bfz)
BFZ · #153uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.14
Foil: $0.42
Oracle Text

Rules text

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, choose one — • Target creature gets +2/+0 until end of turn. • Target creature can't block this turn.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
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
N/A
Pauper Commander
N/A
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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