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Tectonic Reformation

Enchantment1 generic manaRed mana

Flooding out is the oldest structural problem in the game, and this addresses it by turning the dead half of your hand into a renewable resource. Every land you draw becomes a one-mana cantrip: the enchantment grants cycling Red mana to each land card in your hand, so the excess lands that would rot become fuel. The elegance is that it scales with exactly the games where you need it. A hand clogged with lands late is normally a loss; here it is a stack of red-mana draws waiting to be spent. The self-cycling clause on the enchantment itself is the release valve: draw it when the board is already sorted and you cycle it away for two mana rather than being stuck with a do-nothing permanent. Most card-advantage engines ask you to invest resources you would rather deploy elsewhere; this one only fires on cards you did not want anyway, which is why it costs so little and does so much for decks built around a high land count. It rewards a manabase padded with extra lands and light on nonland spells, because the more of your library converts to a draw, the more of your late-game hand stays live. The rate looks modest until you count how many otherwise-dead cards it quietly turns into new ones over a long game.

Tectonic Reformation (mh1)
MH1 · #149rare
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Normal: $0.38
Foil: $1.65
Oracle Text

Rules text

Each land card in your hand has cycling Red mana. Cycling 2 generic mana (2 generic mana, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
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
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
Legal
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