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Spreading Seas

Enchantment — Aura1 generic manaBlue mana

Color-screwing as a cantrip. The disruption here doesn't tax a nonbasic's mana ability or shut off its activation; it overwrites the land's type wholesale, so whatever it enchants becomes an Island and nothing else. A dual stops producing its second color, a manland stops being a creature you can animate, and a deck built around a singular land (a Gaea's Cradle, a fetch-anchored base) loses the identity it was assembled around, left with blue mana it can't use. Drawing on entry is the clause that keeps the card from ever being dead: even when the type-change accomplishes nothing, you've replaced it and looked one card deeper, so deploying it speculatively against a greedy manabase costs you nothing. That floor is why it has outlasted the older land-hosing Auras, the ones that sat inert in hand against the wrong opponent. The rewrite also opens a small constructive seam most disruption can't reach: effects that count or care about Islands read the enchanted land as a genuine one, since the type-line change is real, not a mana restriction. It is a soft-lock dressed as a tempo card. The ceiling (stranding an opponent off their second color through a full turn cycle) wins games outright, and the floor never embarrasses you, which is a rarer combination in hate cards than it looks.

Spreading Seas (plst)
PLST · #ZEN-70common
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Enchant land When this Aura enters, draw a card. Enchanted land is an Island.
Legalities

Format Status

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