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Zektar Shrine Expedition

Enchantment1 generic manaRed mana

The deferred-payoff structure here is the whole pitch: two mana down on an empty board buys you nothing immediately, only a meter that ticks up one notch per land drop. The math is deliberately slow, but it is not strictly a three-turn wait. Each land that enters can add a counter, so a fetchland that cracks into another land, or a ramp spell that drops an extra land, stacks triggers within a single turn and brings the payoff online faster than a one-land-per-turn pace suggests. The reward is a 7/1 Elemental with trample and haste that lasts exactly one combat step before exile cleans it off the board. That ephemerality is what pays for the rate: a body that big can never become a permanent threat, only a single overwhelming swing, and the trample is precisely the keyword you want on it, since it shoves the bulk of seven damage straight through whatever chump blocker stands in the way. The 1 toughness is the other side of the bargain: any ping effect or instant-speed removal erases the token before it connects, and because the enchantment sits visibly accumulating counters, an attentive opponent knows the haymaker is coming and can hold up an answer. What this kind of enchantment really does is convert excess land drops, normally dead late-game draws, into a clock, asking the deck to commit early and survive to the turn the burst arrives.

Zektar Shrine Expedition (zen)
ZEN · #155common
Pricing
Normal: $0.08
Foil: $0.60
Oracle Text

Rules text

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you may put a quest counter on this enchantment. Remove three quest counters from this enchantment and sacrifice it: Create a 7/1 red Elemental creature token with trample and haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step.
Legalities

Format Status

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