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Springjack Pasture

Land

Most lands that produce tokens stop at producing them; this one welds the token to a closed three-step loop, and the loop is the whole reason to run a colorless source that asks for no color of its own. Tap for one colorless to keep the lights on, spend four mana to grow a 0/1 Goat, then cash any number of those Goats in for an equal pile of one chosen color plus a point of life apiece. The conversion ratio is deliberately patient: each Goat costs four mana up front and returns exactly one mana of a single color, so the land never shows a profit in raw mana. What it banks instead is flexibility, saved over a quiet stretch of turns and redeemed in a single burst, which is the price that stops a colorless utility land from quietly fixing every color for free. The third ability also collapses the flock into one color rather than a rainbow, so the Goats are stored fixing and a lifegain cushion, not a Chromatic engine fired each turn. Tribal payoff, mana sink, and fixer in one slot, all riding on a land that enters untapped: that combination is why it has lingered in toolboxes with nothing better to do with a land slot.

Springjack Pasture (c13)
C13 · #326rare
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Normal: $0.89
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Tap: Add Colorless mana. 4 generic mana, Tap: Create a 0/1 white Goat creature token. Tap, Sacrifice X Goats: Add X mana of any one color. You gain X life.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
Legal
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
N/A
PreDH
Legal
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
N/A
Penny Dreadful
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
Legal
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