Tainted Wood

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Character Background

Tainted Wood reads like a piece of corrupted frontier terrain: it reliably tucks a colorless mana into your hand but only yields black or green once the corruption finds a true Swamp to feed from, which makes it an ideal pick for Golgari midrange/value decks and for decks that need flexible early tempo while preserving late-game color consistency. In practice it smooths awkward draws—tap it for {C} early to hit a curve or cast artifacts, then turn it into {B} or {G} once you establish a Swamp—so include at least one dedicated Swamp or a card that makes all lands Swamps (Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth) to remove its restriction. In Limited it's a solid uncommon to splash from; in Constructed, pair it with fetchlands (Verdant Catacombs, Fabled Passage) or Urborg to make it a dependable dual producer, but don’t rely on a single Tainted Wood as your only source of black or green in the opening turns.

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