Swamp

Swamp
Land Type
(Subtype for land cards)
Rules	: Add .
Statistics	27 cards 18.5% 18.5% 18.5% 11.1% 11.1% 22.2% as of Alchemy Horizons: Baldur's Gate
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type:"Swamp"

Swamp is one of the five basic land types and provides black mana, which is required to cast black spells.

Additionally there is a snow variant, the Snow-Covered Swamp.

Description

Swamps are traditionally defined as forested wetlands, areas where the water deposition is greater than the draining the topology of the area allows. The resulting landscape is often filled with mud, rotting vegetation and insect populations.

The visual style for Swamps are distinct, but some arts of Plains, Islands and Forests could also be considered "swampy". Nonetheless, Swamps have a fairly consistent depiction in Magic, with the exception of sewers or flooded buildings in urbanized areas.

List of Swamps

Swamps of Alara

Esper

• The Cesspools

Grixis

• Dregscape

Jund

• Varakna

Swamps of Dominaria

Burning Isles

• Urborg

Caliman

The salt marshes of Caliman conceal the city of Dakmor.

Corondor

• Great Sulgh Salt Marsh
• Khone
• Nyx

Jamuraa

• Nakaya
• Uuserk Marshes

Terisiare

• Almaaz

The Domains

• Wrenna

Swamps of Innistrad

• The Bog

Swamps of Kamigawa

• Takenuma Swamp

Swamps of Mirrodin

• Mephidross

Swamps of Ravnica

The sewers of Ravnica make up the swamps.

Rules

From the glossary of the Comprehensive Rules (June 7, 2024—Modern Horizons 3)

Swamp

One of the five basic land types. Any land with this subtype has the ability “{T}: Add {B}.” See rule 305.6.