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Viridescent Bog

Land

The tax is the whole design. This land fixes two colors on demand but charges for the privilege: pay one generic, tap it, and it returns exactly the black and green you asked for. That inverts the tapland bargain, where you eat the tempo hit once on entry and produce freely forever after. Here the friction is metered, one generic surcharge every time you reach for colored mana, and because tapping is part of the cost, the well runs once per turn no matter how color-hungry the board gets. That single-activation cap is the real ceiling: it hands back two colored mana per turn but only nets one, so a deck leaning hard on it wants other sources to carry the rest of the curve. The upside is that it always enters untapped, ready to help cast something the turn it lands, which the shocklands and taplands cannot both promise at once. It is a filter more than a source: you feed it generic mana and it returns the precise Golgari pair, which makes it strongest in shells already flush with colorless or off-color mana looking for a fixing outlet, and weakest as plain two-color fixing with no strings attached. Like any nonbasic it still answers to Wasteland, Ghost Quarter, and the rest of the land-hate suite, so the stability it offers is reliable color, not indestructibility.

Viridescent Bog (m3c)
M3C · #406rare
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Oracle Text

Rules text

1 generic mana, Tap: Add Black manaGreen mana.
Legalities

Format Status

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