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Winding Canyons

Land

Flash for your whole creature deck, sold by the land slot. The genius of the design is what it doesn't cost you: the ability lives on a land, so you pay no card and no spell slot to gain instant-speed access to every creature in your hand. The two-mana activation is the tax that stops it from being a free upgrade to your timing; you bank the mana on a quiet turn, then ambush with a sorcery-speed threat at the end of an opponent's turn or mid-combat, dodging the window creature spells normally live in. It rewrites how a whole board develops rather than what any single card does. Crucially, the effect is a blanket grant: once activated, every creature you cast that turn gains flash, so a flash-based blink or ambush plan only has to find this one untapped land to come online. The colorless mana it taps for otherwise is incidental, a small concession to keep it from reading as a strictly free utility land. This sits in a Weatherlight-era school of build-around lands that did something a spell would normally do, trading the colored-mana ability for flexibility that no two-color deck had to warp around. The result is a quiet enabler that changes how a creature deck holds up its mana without ever appearing in the threat count.

Winding Canyons (wth)
WTH · #167rare
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Normal: $32.27
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Tap: Add Colorless mana. 2 generic mana, Tap: You may cast creature spells this turn as though they had flash.
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
Legal
PreDH
Legal
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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