Skip to content
Moxonomy

Ruins of Oran-Rief

Land

Built to subsidize a single, narrow archetype: colorless creatures, which in practice means Eldrazi. The mana ability is boilerplate utility-land tax (enters tapped, produces one colorless), but the second ability is the reason the card exists, growing a colorless creature that entered the same turn. That timing clause is the whole constraint. It cannot buff a body already on the board; the reward only lands on something fresh, which converts the land into a recurring incentive for a deck that keeps flooding new Eldrazi onto the table rather than a generic combat trick stapled to a land. The payoff scales with how many colorless bodies you can chain out turn after turn, so the card wants a board that is constantly refilling. The cost of that focus is total: outside an Eldrazi-leaning shell the activated ability is dead text, and you are left with a tapland producing colorless mana, which most decks would rather not run. This is a tribal payoff hidden inside a land slot, free support if you are already committed and worthless if you are not.

Ruins of Oran-Rief (cmm)
CMM · #1023rare
Pricing
Normal: $0.30
Foil:
Oracle Text

Rules text

This land enters tapped. Tap: Add Colorless mana. (Colorless mana represents colorless mana.) Tap: Put a +1/+1 counter on target colorless creature that entered 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
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
Legal
Printings elsewhere

Other printings

3 sets
Quick navigation
move selectesc close