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Sandstone Bridge

Land

The tapped-land-with-a-trigger template is one of the quietest workhorses in common-rarity land design: it pays for a small upside by costing you a tempo, and the upside here is a one-shot combat boost stapled to the land drop. The +1/+1 and vigilance arrive when the land enters, so the value comes free with a play you were making anyway, but the timing is the catch. You can only deploy it at sorcery speed, and only when your land for the turn is this one, so the pump rarely lands as a combat trick the way an instant would; it nudges a blocker, pushes a point of damage, or keeps an attacker home on defense. Vigilance is the more interesting half, letting the boosted creature swing and still hold the line, which makes the effect read less like a trick and more like a tempo-smoothing nudge for a creature-leaning white deck. The land itself is plain mono-white mana once the trigger has resolved, so the whole package is modest by design: an untapped-next-turn white source with a marginal enters trigger, the sort of card that fills out a common slot and gives a synergy-light deck one more incidental point of reach. It asks nothing of your deckbuilding and rewards nothing in particular, which is exactly the niche it was built to occupy.

Sandstone Bridge (j22)
J22 · #819common
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Normal: $0.15
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Oracle Text

Rules text

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, target creature gets +1/+1 and gains vigilance until end of turn. Tap: Add White mana.
Legalities

Format Status

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