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Shineshadow Snarl

Land

The reveal-a-land tapland is the untapped-conditional dual's answer to a problem the check land could never solve: it doesn't care what's already on the battlefield, only what's still in your hand. Where a check land reads your existing lands and comes in tapped if you're behind on the right basic types, this cycle reads your grip, and a single Plains or Swamp card revealed (basic or not, since typed nonbasics count) pays the tap tax. That inverts the fixing math entirely. A check land is strongest late, once your typed lands have accumulated; this one is strongest early, when your hand is still full and revealing a qualifying card costs nothing but information. The trade-off it accepts is real: draw it in the wrong half of the game with an empty hand, and it's a tapland with no recourse, no shock-style life payment to buy the untapped enter and no basic type of its own to trigger a partner. It fixes white and black cleanly and asks only that you keep the right card in reserve, which makes it a natural fit for two-color decks running enough typed lands to keep the reveal live. Everything interesting about it sits in that hand-reveal window, a quiet tension between wanting to deploy your lands and wanting to hold the one that keeps the next one honest.

Shineshadow Snarl (stx)
STX · #364rare
Pricing
Normal: $3.17
Foil: $3.69
Oracle Text

Rules text

As this land enters, you may reveal a Plains or Swamp card from your hand. If you don't, this land enters tapped. Tap: Add White mana or Black mana.
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
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
Legal
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