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University Campus

Land

Dual lands that enter tapped and offer a late-game mana sink have been a fixture since the taplands of the Ravnica era, but the sink attached here is unusually cheap in card-quality terms: four mana and a tap buys a surveil, letting you dig one card deep and, if what you find is a land you do not need or a spell you would rather bin, feed a graveyard instead. That is the whole trade this land is negotiating. The entering-tapped clause is the tempo cost you pay up front for a fixing source that never becomes a dead draw once your curve tops out. Surveil, unlike scry, converts the peek into graveyard fuel, which quietly changes what the activation is worth: in a shell that cares about cards in the yard (delve, flashback, threshold-adjacent payoffs), the four-mana ability is doing double duty as a filter and a resource, not just a smoothing tool. The Azorius color pairing keeps it squarely in the controlling, card-selection lane where a slow land with a repeatable dig is most at home. It asks nothing of your deckbuilding beyond the willingness to trade a turn of tempo for consistency, and it pays that back across a long game one surveil at a time.

University Campus (spm)
SPM · #186common
Pricing
Normal: $0.15
Foil: $0.25
Oracle Text

Rules text

This land enters tapped. Tap: Add White mana or Blue mana. 4 generic mana, Tap: Surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
Legal
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
Legal
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
Legal
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
Legal
Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
Legal
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
Legal
Printings elsewhere

Other printings

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