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Volatile Fjord

Snow Land — Island Mountain

Strip away the Snow supertype and this is the plainest dual-land template on the board: enters tapped, taps for one of two colors, no scry to soften the blow, no untap tax to buy speed, none of the concessions the tapland lineage has offered since the mid-2010s. That plainness is deliberate. The Island Mountain typing already makes it fetchable as both a red and a blue basic-type source; the Snow supertype layered on top is the resource nothing else in the same slot provides. It counts toward snow-mana costs and feeds every card that tallies the snow permanents you control, all while still producing two colors instead of one. The design bet is a clean trade: you eat a guaranteed turn where the land does nothing, and the return is a permanent that participates in an entire payoff subtheme. Away from that context, it is strictly worse than any comparable untapped dual, and there is no argument for running it. Once a deck is actually counting snow, the tapped entry becomes the admission price, and the two colors it makes widen which of those snow payoffs you can support at once. Everything about the card hinges on whether that supertype is pulling weight; there is no middle ground where it is a merely fine mana source.

Volatile Fjord (khm)
KHM · #273common
Pricing
Normal: $0.83
Foil: $1.83
Oracle Text

Rules text

(Tap: Add Blue mana or Red mana.) This land enters tapped.
Legalities

Format Status

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