Restless Fortress
Mana Cost: -
Type: Land
Oracle Text:
This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {W} or {B}.
{2}{W}{B}: This land becomes a 1/4 white and black Nightmare creature until end of turn. It's still a land.
Whenever this land attacks, defending player loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.
Power/Toughness: -/-
Rarity: rare
Prints: View all prints (1) →
Expansion: Wilds of Eldraine
Price ( USD): $0.61
USD: $0.61 · EUR: €0.87
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Character Background
Restless Fortress is a gritty half-breed of battlefield and nightmare: a Land that arrives tapped, yet can be “awakened” for a short burst into a 1/4 Nightmare with both white and black identity, while staying stubbornly grounded as a land for rules purposes. Because it also drains the opponent—when it attacks, the defending player loses 2 life and you gain 2—you’re getting repeatable lifelink-like swing for an aggressive tempo shell, not a slow grind. To maximize it, build around reliable turn-two untaps and follow-up attackers: pair it with creatures that care about attack triggers, with sacrifice or reanimation packages that don’t mind the temporary creature state, and with mana-fixing lands/spells to smooth the {2}{W}{B} activation cost. In limited, it’s a value tempo card; in constructed, it supports midrange aggro-control that wants early pressure plus incidental lifegain to stabilize.
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