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Legendary Creature — Insect Mutant Scientist
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common · Land
Ash Barrens
$0.26
Low
$0.30
Market
$0.38
High
Oracle Text
{T}: Add {C}.
Basic landcycling {1} ({1}, Discard this card: Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)
Card Details
-/-Power / Toughness
-Mana Cost
31Prints
Set
Character Background
Ash Barrens reads like a practical relic from a scorched world: it taps for colorless but can be discarded for one to grab a basic land, which makes it quietly powerful as a utility land in tempo, midrange, or control decks that prize consistency over raw acceleration. In play it’s a fail-safe—early it’s a spare land when you need mana, late it’s insurance against color screw or disruptive effects (think Blood Moon or land destruction) because you can always convert it into a basic. Deckbuilding tip: run 2–3 copies in two- or three-color shells alongside shocklands and checklands to smooth your mana without diluting your nonbasic suite; it also pairs well with artifact- or colorless-leaning builds that still want access to basics. Because the cycling is basic-land-specific rather than draw-based, it’s best thought of as insurance and card-economy protection rather than tempo engine—keep it as a utility slot rather than a core play.
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Character Background
Ash Barrens reads like a practical relic from a scorched world: it taps for colorless but can be discarded for one to grab a basic land, which makes it quietly powerful as a utility land in tempo, midrange, or control decks that prize consistency over raw acceleration. In play it’s a fail-safe—early it’s a spare land when you need mana, late it’s insurance against color screw or disruptive effects (think Blood Moon or land destruction) because you can always convert it into a basic. Deckbuilding tip: run 2–3 copies in two- or three-color shells alongside shocklands and checklands to smooth your mana without diluting your nonbasic suite; it also pairs well with artifact- or colorless-leaning builds that still want access to basics. Because the cycling is basic-land-specific rather than draw-based, it’s best thought of as insurance and card-economy protection rather than tempo engine—keep it as a utility slot rather than a core play.
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