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Moxonomy

Shivan Gorge

Legendary Land

Most damage engines that live on a land charge a tax in tension: a self-inflicted wound, a steep upkeep, a fragile body that folds to a stray Disenchant. This one asks nothing of the deck around it. It taps for colorless when you need a land and converts surplus mana into a point of damage when you don't, and because the clock sits on a permanent that reads as a land, it survives the wraths, counterspells, and sweepers that switch off every other source of inevitability in a grinding control game. The activation locks up four mana in total (2 generic manaRed mana from elsewhere plus the Gorge's own tap), which is what holds it short of a real win condition in the mold of Cursed Scroll: this is a slow leak, not a faucet. But a slow leak is exactly what a low-resource, attrition-bound game wants, a recurring damage source that costs no card to deploy and never has to be recast. The "each opponent" clause is where it earns its keep at a crowded table, multiplying its output by the number of players without ever raising the price of the activation. It is built for the deck that plans to go long, has nothing better to do with its mana in the late turns, and is content to win by turning every stalled game state into a steadily mounting loss for everyone else.

Shivan Gorge (dsc)
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Tap: Add Colorless mana. 2 generic manaRed mana, Tap: Shivan Gorge deals 1 damage to each opponent.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
N/A
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
N/A
Historic
N/A
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
N/A
Standard Brawl
N/A
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
Legal
PreDH
Legal
Pauper Commander
N/A
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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