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Savai Triome

Land — Mountain Plains Swamp

Fixing lands have always paid for their color with tempo: entering tapped is the tax you accept for the flexibility of three colors in one slot. What this cycle did was take that tax and hand you a rebate. A land that comes down tapped hurts most in a late-game topdeck war, when what you need is untapped mana or an immediate answer, and this is exactly the situation where an entered-tapped land is a lost turn. Cycling defuses that: for three mana, the dead draw becomes a fresh card, so the worst-case scenario stops being a wasted turn and starts being a filtered one. That is the resolution of the oldest tension in fixing design, where the land good enough to run across three colors is the land you least want off the top. The three basic land types carry the rest of the payoff: every fetchland becomes an on-color search, and any effect that goes hunting for a Plains, a Swamp, or a Mountain can pull this into a three-color manabase. A single tapland bundling three types plus a discard-to-draw outlet is more moving parts than a plain dual land has ever carried, and the friction of entering tapped is precisely what earns all of it.

Savai Triome (iko)
IKO · #253rare
Pricing
Normal: $20.43
Foil: $21.76
Oracle Text

Rules text

(Tap: Add Red mana, White mana, or Black mana.) This land enters tapped. Cycling 3 generic mana (3 generic mana, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
Legal
Historic
Legal
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
Legal
Standard Brawl
N/A
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
Legal
Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
Legal
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