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Karn's Bastion
Oracle Text
{T}: Add {C}.
{4}, {T}: Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)
Card Details
Character Background
Karn’s Bastion is a deceptively important utility land that quietly turns any slow board advantage into a real endgame plan, making it especially strong in control and value decks, with occasional homes in combo shells. It enters the battlefield as a painless colorless source, but its real power is the activated proliferate ability, which lets you keep growing planeswalkers, charge counters, +1/+1 counters, loyalty, poison, or energy without spending a spell slot. That makes it excellent in decks built around walkers, sagas, poison strategies, or any list that naturally accumulates counters over time. In practice, the four-mana activation is best when you can afford to hold up interaction and use Bastion at the opponent’s end step, turning spare mana into incremental inevitability. It pairs particularly well with cards that already place counters efficiently, since each proliferate multiplies that investment. More than a land, it is a late-game engine that rewards patience and board-state planning.
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Character Background
Karn’s Bastion is a deceptively important utility land that quietly turns any slow board advantage into a real endgame plan, making it especially strong in control and value decks, with occasional homes in combo shells. It enters the battlefield as a painless colorless source, but its real power is the activated proliferate ability, which lets you keep growing planeswalkers, charge counters, +1/+1 counters, loyalty, poison, or energy without spending a spell slot. That makes it excellent in decks built around walkers, sagas, poison strategies, or any list that naturally accumulates counters over time. In practice, the four-mana activation is best when you can afford to hold up interaction and use Bastion at the opponent’s end step, turning spare mana into incremental inevitability. It pairs particularly well with cards that already place counters efficiently, since each proliferate multiplies that investment. More than a land, it is a late-game engine that rewards patience and board-state planning.
Generated using gpt-5.4-mini · Updated at 2026-09-05 19:10:47 UTC