Scrubland

The white-black member of the cycle that established what a "fixing land" could be: it enters untapped, produces either color, and pays nothing for the privilege beyond the deckbuilding commitment to two colors. It saw early Type 2 play before the original printings rotated out with Fourth Edition in 1995, and it has not returned to a Standard-legal set since; every two-color land Wizards has printed in the decades after prices itself against the absence at the heart of this one. Shocklands trade life to enter untapped, fastlands stop working past turn three, painlands charge a damage per colored tap, filterlands need a mana to convert, surveil lands enter tapped: each restriction is a different way of charging for what Scrubland gives away free. This cycle is also why the reserved list conversation is shaped the way it is, the most visible argument for and against ever printing functional reprints of cards from 1993. As a piece of game design, the card is almost an absence: no drawback, no clause, no timing window, just two land types stapled together. That absence is exactly what later cycles spend their text boxes negotiating around.