Arena of Glory
Mana Cost: -
Type: Land
Oracle Text:
This land enters tapped unless you control a Mountain.
{T}: Add {R}.
{R}, {T}, Exert this land: Add {R}{R}. If that mana is spent on a creature spell, it gains haste until end of turn. (An exerted permanent won't untap during your next untap step.)
Power/Toughness: -/-
Rarity: rare
Prints: View all prints (1) →
Expansion: Modern Horizons 3
Price ( USD): $11.01
USD: $11.01 · EUR: €12.69
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Character Background
Arena of Glory reads like a war pit built to unleash a single decisive surge: mechanically it’s a tempo/aggro enabler that converts one land activation into a burst of mana and granted haste for a creature spell, at the cost of skipping your next untap. In practice it supports aggressive red strategies and red-based midrange turns where getting a threat through immediately matters—think surprise attacks, Embercleave turns, or dumping a large threat and swinging before blockers are set. Deckbuilding tips: run at least one Mountain (or fetches like Wooded Foothills or Scalding Tarn) to avoid the tapped entry tax and consider 2–3 copies as three or four feels greedy; pair it with Embercleave, Torbran, or creatures that benefit hugely from attacking the turn they hit board (big burn finishers, Kiki-Jiki-style combos, or haste payoffs). Use Arena as a calculated tempo play—save its RR burst for turns where instant offence closes out life totals rather than as routine mana.
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