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Spelunking

Enchantment2 generic manaGreen mana

Green ramp enchantments have historically bought their acceleration one way: they hand you an extra land drop and let you sort out the tap penalties yourself. This one attacks the problem from a different direction. The static ability that lands you control enter untapped is the load-bearing clause, and it retroactively refunds the balancing tax on an entire manabase. Dual lands, tap-lands, and painless bounce lands all shed their entering-tapped penalty the moment this resolves, so a greedy hand suddenly plays with the smoothness of basics. The enters trigger sequences to reinforce it: draw a card first, then drop a land from hand, and because of the static ability that land arrives ready to use the same turn (as does any land you drew into off the trigger). Put a Cave down and you also bank four life, a rider tuned to its home block that sits on top of the structural work rather than being it. It descends from green's oldest tempo trade, where you spend a card slot to get ahead on lands: Exploration handed you the second land drop without any fixing, Explore folded the draw and the drop into a single sorcery. The tap-state override is its own contribution. It quietly rewrites how much a painful, greedy manabase costs to assemble, turning the standard tradeoff of fixing-versus-speed into something you no longer have to pay for.

Spelunking (lci)
LCI · #213uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $3.45
Foil: $5.17
Oracle Text

Rules text

When this enchantment enters, draw a card, then you may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield. If you put a Cave onto the battlefield this way, you gain 4 life. Lands you control enter untapped.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
Legal
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
Legal
Historic
Legal
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
Legal
Standard Brawl
Legal
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
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Gladiator
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Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
Legal
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
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