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Shire Terrace

Land

The colorless it taps for is a placeholder; the sacrifice ability is the reason the card gets built. Where a fetchland pays life to grab a dual and thin the deck, this one pays a mana, taps, and sacrifices itself to pull any basic onto the battlefield tapped. That tapped clause and the extra mana are the toll: slow fixing, the kind that assumes you have a turn to spare rather than the kind that fires on the crack-back. The design lineage runs through the Panorama cycle and Terramorphic Expanse before it, cards that traded speed for a body-count on the land drop and a shuffle to smooth future draws. The wrinkle here is the free untapped play: it enters unconditionally and taps for colorless immediately, so the sacrifice becomes a choice you defer rather than a cost you pay on the way in. The result is a land that does double duty for decks built around landfall, retrace, delve, or a graveyard that wants the shuffle, banking a colorless source now and cashing it for exact color when the game asks. Nothing about it is fast, and nothing about it is meant to be.

Shire Terrace (sld)
SLD · #1296rare
Pricing
Normal: $12.67
Foil: $17.00
Oracle Text

Rules text

Tap: Add Colorless mana. 1 generic mana, Tap, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
Legal
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
Legal
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
Legal
Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
Legal
Printings elsewhere

Other printings

2 sets
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