MTG · Card

◇ Catalog #22

Smoldering Marsh

DIGITAL ONLY

ea3·#22·rare·nonfoil

Illus. Adam Paquette

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Jul '23

3 yr ago

Played in EDH

EDHrec rank #95 · Format staple

Variants

Nonfoil

Gameplay

Land — Swamp Mountain

({T}: Add {B} or {R}.) This land enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.

Legalities

tlrlegal

duellegal

brawllegal

pennylegal

PreDH

Rulings · 3

2015-08-25wotc

Even though these lands have basic land types, they are not basic lands because "basic" doesn't appear on their type line. Notably, controlling two or more of them won't allow others to enter the battlefield untapped.

2015-08-25wotc

If one of these lands enters the battlefield at the same time as any number of basic lands, those other lands are not counted when determining if this land enters the battlefield tapped or untapped.

2015-08-25wotc

However, because these cards have basic land types, effects that specify a basic land type without also specifying that the land be basic can affect them. For example, a spell or ability that reads "Destroy target Forest" can target Canopy Vista, while one that reads "Destroy target basic Forest" cannot.

Context

This printing is one of 2 catalogued treatments from EA3 — the lineup includes Nonfoil alongside the standard finish. Across our catalog the Rarix library tracks every variant in the same family so collectors can compare price, scarcity and demand inside a single lineage.

Card #22 of *Explorer Anthology 3*, the set that shipped alongside the July 2023 Explorer Anthology 3 release.

Card type: Land — Swamp Mountain, color identity black/red, printed at rare. Rares occupy the bottom-of-pack rare slot in standard boosters.

Legal across the major constructed formats — Modern, Legacy, Vintage, and Commander — plus Standard rotation play.

EDHrec ranks this card #95 in Commander, putting it in the format-staple tier of the format's playable pool.

Illustrated by Adam Paquette. Rarix catalogs 1,191 other cards credited to this artist.