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Swarmyard

Land

A regeneration land for the vermin: Insects, Rats, Spiders, and Squirrels, the four creature types the small-and-many archetypes have always been built from. The design is a deliberate piece of tribal support hidden inside a colorless utility land, which is the whole trick. Regeneration is normally a green keyword stapled to a creature or a spell, paid for in colored mana and a card; folding it into the tap ability of a land that also makes colorless means the protection costs no slot, no card, and no commitment to a color. You get a fixing-free mana source that, on a turn it would otherwise sit idle, can shrug off a removal spell or a one-sided combat trade for one of your creatures. Its narrowness lives in the target restriction: it only ever guards four creature types, so the card is worthless outside a deck built around them and quietly excellent inside one. That same narrowness is why it has settled into a swarm-deck staple rather than a generic include. It rewards exactly the boards that flood the table with cheap bodies, where keeping a key attacker or a sacrifice engine alive through a sweeper or a profitable block is worth more than a turn of tapping for mana.

Swarmyard (eos)
EOS · #87rare
Pricing
Normal: $7.76
Foil: $9.21
Oracle Text

Rules text

Tap: Add Colorless mana. Tap: Regenerate target Insect, Rat, Spider, or Squirrel. (The next time it would be destroyed this turn, instead tap it, remove it from combat, and heal all damage on it.)
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
Legal
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
Legal
Penny Dreadful
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
Legal
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