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Ruin in Their Wake

Sorcery1 generic manaGreen mana

Rampant Growth's wrinkle here is the prerequisite: this is a Rampant Growth that only ramps if you already own the most marginal land in the game. Control a Wastes and the spell behaves like the green ramp staple it resembles, fetching a basic onto the battlefield tapped at two mana. Control no Wastes and it deflates into a slow Lay of the Land, putting the basic into your hand instead. That conditional was the point: it exists to make Wastes worth running, the one card built explicitly to give the colorless basic a reason to be in your deck. The devoid keyword is the flavor stitching, a green ramp effect rendered colorless so it reads as part of the Eldrazi incursion rather than the forest. As a piece of design it is a deliberate downgrade of a known-good rate, gated behind a deckbuilding tax most decks will not pay. The niche it was made to serve is narrow by construction: without the colorless basic in your list, you are running a strictly worse tutor, and with it, you have accepted a subtheme most ramp shells have no reason to touch.

Ruin in Their Wake (j22)
J22 · #132uncommon
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Devoid (This card has no color.) Search your library for a basic land card and reveal it. You may put that card onto the battlefield tapped if you control a land named Wastes. Otherwise, put that card into your hand. Then shuffle.
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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