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Three Tree City

Legendary Land

Tribal decks have always wanted a payoff that scales with the board, and they have usually gotten it stapled to a creature or a spell you had to protect. This puts the scaling on a land, which changes the math entirely. The type gets locked in as it enters, so the choice is a commitment rather than a moving target, and the second ability turns a wide board of one type into a burst of mana in whatever color you need. The elegance is in the split between the two abilities: the tap-for-colorless line keeps it functional the moment it comes down, so you are never sitting on a dead land while you assemble the tribe, and the two-mana activation only pays off once the board has grown. That gap between "produces one colorless" and "produces a fistful of any color" is the whole tension. It rewards a committed creature-type strategy without punishing the turns before that strategy arrives. Ramp effects tied to creature count have shown up before, but bolting one onto a legendary land with no color cost of its own is a quietly aggressive piece of design: it asks nothing of your mana base and gives back proportional to how hard you have leaned into a single type.

Three Tree City (pblb)
PBLB · #260prare
Pricing
Normal: $22.76
Foil: $28.45
Oracle Text

Rules text

As Three Tree City enters, choose a creature type. Tap: Add Colorless mana. 2 generic mana, Tap: Choose a color. Add an amount of mana of that color equal to the number of creatures you control of the chosen type.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
Legal
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
Legal
Historic
Legal
Alchemy
Legal
Timeless
Legal
Standard Brawl
Legal
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
Legal
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
Legal
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