Swamp

Swamp
Land Type
(Subtype for land cards)
Rules	: Add .
Statistics	35 cards 14.3% 20% 20% 14.3% 14.3% 17.1% as of Murders at Karlov Manor
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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 of the topology of the area allows. The resulting landscape is often filled with mud, rotting vegetation, and insect populations.

The visual style for Swamps is distinct, drawing upon pop-cultural depictions of wetlands as somber, sinister places, but some art used for Plains, Islands, and Forests could also be considered "swampy". Nonetheless, Swamps have a fairly consistent depiction in Magic, except for sewers or flooded buildings in urbanized areas. Notably, lakes tend to be considered Islands, when in real life the distinction between lakes and swamps tends to be rather blurry and generally supports similar ecologies.

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/New Phyrexia

• Mephidross
• Dross Pits

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.