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Scalding Tarn
Oracle Text
{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for an Island or Mountain card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
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Character Background
Scalding Tarn is one of Magic: The Gathering’s most efficient fetch lands, and in Modern Horizons 2 it remains a premium mana-fixing tool for blue-red shells and beyond. By paying 1 life and sacrificing itself, it turns into any Island or Mountain, which makes it especially strong in tempo and control decks that need untapped access to the right colors while also thinning the deck and enabling shuffle effects. In practice, it shines in Izzet Murktide, Jeskai Control, and other strategies that want instant-speed flexibility for spells like Expressive Iteration, Counterspell, or Lightning Bolt. It also pairs well with cards that care about lands entering or leaving, graveyard synergy, and top-deck manipulation such as Brainstorm-style effects in older formats. Thematically, it evokes a shoreline of sudden heat and volatility: a small cost now for perfect resources later.
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Character Background
Scalding Tarn is one of Magic: The Gathering’s most efficient fetch lands, and in Modern Horizons 2 it remains a premium mana-fixing tool for blue-red shells and beyond. By paying 1 life and sacrificing itself, it turns into any Island or Mountain, which makes it especially strong in tempo and control decks that need untapped access to the right colors while also thinning the deck and enabling shuffle effects. In practice, it shines in Izzet Murktide, Jeskai Control, and other strategies that want instant-speed flexibility for spells like Expressive Iteration, Counterspell, or Lightning Bolt. It also pairs well with cards that care about lands entering or leaving, graveyard synergy, and top-deck manipulation such as Brainstorm-style effects in older formats. Thematically, it evokes a shoreline of sudden heat and volatility: a small cost now for perfect resources later.
Generated using gpt-5.4-mini · Updated at 2026-08-27 19:40:45 UTC