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Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs

Instant // Land

This modal double-faced land answers one of the oldest tensions in deckbuilding: every deck wants more lands and more spells, and every slot spent on one is a slot denied the other. The design resolves it by making the slot refuse to sit dead. The front is a clean tempo bounce, returning any spell or nonland permanent an opponent controls, which lets it catch something on the stack, unwind a resolved permanent, or simply set an opponent's development back a turn. The back is a nonbasic land that taps for blue, and it is where the design pays its bill: it arrives tapped unless you spend three life, so the flexibility is real but never free, and the toll scales against your own clock in exactly the games where tempo matters most. That life-for-speed toggle is what stops a two-cards-in-one from being strictly better than either half; the untapped mode is available whenever you can afford it and painful whenever you cannot. The deeper effect is on land counts. A deck running these can shave a land or two because a fraction of its interaction doubles as fixing, and its bounce doubles as insurance against a mana-light draw. Flood becomes a spell; a hand short on lands has one hiding in plain sight. The sleepy-marsh art and the drowsy naming sell the flavor, but the real work is in the hand-slot economy: a card that is never the wrong draw.

Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs (mh3)
MH3 · #241uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $6.04
Foil: $10.40
Oracle Text

Rules text

Return target spell or nonland permanent an opponent controls to its owner's hand. // As this land enters, you may pay 3 life. If you don't, it enters tapped. Tap: Add Blue mana.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
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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