Landfall
| Landfall | |
|---|---|
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| Ability Word | |
| Introduced | Zendikar |
| Last used | Modern Horizons 3 |
| Typical Text |
Landfall — Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, … (nonland permanents) Landfall — If you had a land enter the battlefield under your control this turn, … (instants and sorceries) |
| Storm Scale | 3[1][2] |
| Statistics |
124 cards  0.8%  12.1%  11.3%  10.5%  17.7%  32.3%  4.8%  0.8%  0.8%  1.6%  3.2%  4% |
| Scryfall Search | |
| keyword:"Landfall" | |
Landfall is an ability word which signals triggered abilities that respond to a Land entering the Battlefield under the control of the player with the Landfall card.
Description
The landfall ability word rewards a player each time a land enters the battlefield under their control. Generally being a sorcery-speed action means most landfall abilities are geared toward proactive gameplay (usually attacking) and incentivize playing more lands, even in aggressive decks.
Landfall was introduced in Zendikar,[3][4][5][6] and expanded upon in Worldwake [7][8] with the only landfall instants; the Battle for Zendikar block[9] with land-type boosted landfall and paid-mana effects; and Zendikar Rising [10][11] with sequentially different landfall effects.
Because an ability word doesn't have inherent rules meaning, it can be left off, removed or added at will, without changing the mechanic.
Landfall was one of the non-evergreen, non-deciduous ability words included in the Unfinity sticker sheets. Shortly after Unfinity's release, in October 2022, R&D promoted Landfall to a deciduous mechanic and errata'd mechanically similar cards like Architect of the Untamed and Vinelasher Kudzu to have the ability word.[12][13]
Rulings
- A landfall ability triggers whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control for any reason. It triggers whenever you play a land, as well as whenever a spell or ability (such as Rampant Growth) puts a land onto the battlefield under your control. It will even trigger when a spell or ability causes another player to put a land onto the battlefield under your control (as can happen with Yavimaya Dryad's ability, for example).
- A landfall ability doesn't trigger if a permanent already on the battlefield becomes a land.
- Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, each landfall ability of the permanents you control will trigger. You can put them on the stack in any order. The last ability you put on the stack will be the first one to resolve.
- Mark Rosewater considers Landfall to be the second best mechanic of all time after Flying.[14]
Examples
Example
Plated Geopede 
Creature — Insect
1/1
First Strike
Landfall — Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, Plated Geopede gets +2/+2 until end of turn.
References
- ↑ Mark Rosewater (November 21, 2016). "Storm Scale: Zendikar and Battle for Zendikar". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
- ↑ Mark Rosewater (December 19, 2022). "Storm Scale: Throne of Eldraine through Strixhaven, Part 1". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
- ↑ Mark Rosewater (September 14, 2009). "Achieving Zendikar, Part II". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
- ↑ Tom LaPille (September 25, 2009). "Making Landfall, Part I". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
- ↑ Tom LaPille (October 9, 2009). "Making Landfall, Part II". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
- ↑ Doug Beyer (October 7, 2009). "The Moment of Discovery". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
- ↑ Tom LaPille (January 22, 2010). "The Second Landfall". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
- ↑ Mark Rosewater (January 25, 2010). "A Multikick in the Seat of the Pants". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
- ↑ Matt Tabak (August 31, 2015). "Battle for Zendikar Mechanics". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
- ↑ Matt Tabak (September 1, 2020). "Zendikar Rising Mechanics". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
- ↑ Eli Shiffrin (September 10, 2020). "Zendikar Rising Release Notes". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
- ↑ Mark Rosewater (October 15, 2022). "Mark... gatherer had a weird update this morning. Are surveil and landfall becoming evergreen?". Blogatog. Tumblr.
- ↑ Jess Dunks (October 18, 2022). "Unfinity Oracle Changes". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
- ↑ Mark Rosewater (March 18, 2024). "Looking Back, Part 2". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
External links
- A Planeswalker's Primer for Worldwake: Landfall (Video). YouTube.
- A Planeswalker's Primer for Worldwake: Landfall Revisited (Video). YouTube.