Manland

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Manland
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Last used	Foundations
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"Manland" (also "man-land" or "creature land") is a slang term referring to any land card that can inherently turn itself into a creature, usually until end of turn.

Because Wizards of the Coast use the most inclusive language available, they prefer to use the term "creature land". Mark Rosewater mentioned he liked the term "landfolk" as a gender neutral term.

When a permanent is both a land and a creature it is officially referred as land creatures.

Colorless manlands

The earliest and most famous of the "manlands" is Mishra's Factory. Like the first of its kind all other manlands in this category have ": Add " and enter the battlefield untapped.

Mishra's Factory

• Mishra's Factory in Antiquities — It has four different illustrations by Kaja and Phil Foglio representing Spring, Summer, Fall (Autumn), and Winter. The Fall version was reprinted in Fourth Edition. The original creature land, inspiring the entire series of designs.
• Mishra's Foundry in The Brothers' War as a callback.
• Mutavault in Morningtide and Magic 2014.
• Blinkmoth Nexus in Darksteel as a homage to Mishra's Factory.
• Inkmoth Nexus in Mirrodin Besieged as a callback to Blinkmoth Nexus.

Subtyped and supertyped

• Cavernous Maw in The Lost Caverns of Ixalan — is a Cave
• Faceless Haven in Kaldheim — produces and requires snow mana.
• Frostwalk Bastion in Modern Horizons — produces and requires snow mana and possesses the Freeze ability.
• Hostile Desert in Hour of Devastation — is a Desert
• Cactus Preserve in Outlaws of Thunder Junction/Commander decks — is a Desert, can add colored mana

With color identity

• Nantuko Monastery in Judgment — has a color identity of /.
• Svogthos, the Restless Tomb in Ravnica: City of Guilds — has a color identity of /.

Permanent animations

• Stalking Stones in Tempest and Mirrodin— unusual as it becomes a creature permanently.
• Soulstone Sanctuary in Foundations — also becomes a creature permanently.
• Westvale Abbey in Shadows over Innistrad — transforms into an indestructible legendary Demon creature upon sacrificing five creatures.
• Zoetic Cavern in Future Sight — can be cast as a creature using its Morph ability.

Others

• Crawling Barrens in Zendikar Rising.
• Dread Statuary in Worldwake.
• Mobilized District in War of the Spark — synergizes with legendary creatures and planeswalkers.

Mono colored manlands

Urza's Legacy brought a cycle of manlands, each of which came into play tapped and produce mana of one color. It is this set when the nickname manlands was coined. When the cycle was reprinted in Tenth Edition, the lands were given creature types when they used their abilities to turn into creatures. All of the lands turn into M colored creatures for M, where M is of the color of mana the land can produce. The size and abilities of the creatures vary.

• Forbidding Watchtower ()
• Faerie Conclave ()
• Spawning Pool ()
• Ghitu Encampment ()
• Treetop Village ()

Dungeons & Dragons: Adventures in the Forgotten Realms cycle lets them enter untapped on earlier turns, but at the cost of being much more expensive to activate.

• Cave of the Frost Dragon ()
• Hall of Storm Giants ()
• Hive of the Eye Tyrant ()
• Den of the Bugbear ()
• Lair of the Hydra()

Dual colored manlands

Original mega cycle

Worldwake is a set with a distinct theme of making lands into creatures. As such, it introduced a cycle of lands that enter the battlefield tapped and produce one mana of two different colors. The activation cost contains both colors and varies from card to card as does the size and abilities of the creature, though all of them are Elemental creatures of both colors the land can produce. The Worldwake cycle produces one mana of an allied pair.

Battle for Zendikar and Oath of the Gatewatch contain a mega cycle that is the enemy color counterpart of the Worldwake cycle.

Allied colored (Worldwake)

• Celestial Colonnade (/)
• Creeping Tar Pit (/)
• Lavaclaw Reaches (/)
• Raging Ravine (/)
• Stirring Wildwood (/)

Enemy colored (Battle for Zendikar block)

• Shambling Vent (/)
• Wandering Fumarole (/)
• Hissing Quagmire (/)
• Needle Spires (/)
• Lumbering Falls (/)

Restless mega cycle

Eight years later, Wilds of Eldraine and The Lost Caverns of Ixalan had the Restless cycle, lands that natively have an attack trigger; while the trigger works with their own animating ability, said attack triggers would be available without activations if animated through other means (such as through Brave the Wilds or Disturbed Slumber).

Allied color (The Lost Caverns of Ixalan)

• Restless Anchorage (/)
• Restless Reef (/)
• Restless Vents (/)
• Restless Ridgeline (/)
• Restless Prairie (/)

Enemy color (Wilds of Eldraine)

• Restless Fortress (/)
• Restless Spire (/)
• Restless Cottage (/)
• Restless Bivouac (/)
• Restless Vinestalk (/)

Other effects

There are also a variety of cards that can turn lands into creatures, either permanently or temporarily. However, these are not lands and therefore are not considered manlands. Examples would be Living Lands from Alpha, the Genju Cycle from Betrayers of Kamigawa, the Zendikon Cycle of Worldwake, numerous cards with Awaken from Battle for Zendikar, and various Nissa planeswalker cards like Nissa, Vital Force and Nissa, Who Shakes the World.

Dryad Arbor is a land creature, so is considered by some to be a manland.