Swamp

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Swamp
Land Type
(Subtype for land cards)
Introduced	Alpha (updated) Eighth Edition (printed)
Last used	Evergreen
Rules	: Add .
Scryfall Statistics
cards
artworks

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 support similar ecologies.

Rules

From the glossary of the Comprehensive Rules (July 25, 2025—Edge of Eternities)

Swamp

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

List of Swamps

Swamps of Alara

Esper

• The Cesspools

Grixis

• Dregscape

Jund

• Varakna

Swamps of Dominaria

Caliman

• The salt marshes of Caliman conceal the city of Dakmor.

Corondor

• Great Salt Marshes of Western Golthonor
• Khone
• Nyx
• Wolf's Hackle

The Domains

• Aerona
  • Caligo Morass
• Burning Isles
  • Urborg
• Oneah
  • Amjad

Jamuraa

• Nakaya
• Shimia

Otaria

• Great Marsh
• Suderbod
• The swamp outside Aphetto

Sarpadia

• Western Swamps

Unknown location

• Gaslight Swamp

Swamps of Innistrad

• The Bog

Swamps of Kamigawa

• Takenuma Swamp

Swamps of Mirrodin/New Phyrexia

• Mephidross
• Dross Pits

Swamps of Rath

• Cinder Marsh

Swamps of Ravnica

The sewers of Ravnica make up the swamps.

Swamps of Tarkir

• The Gurmag Swamp
• Screamreach

Swamps of Zendikar

• Zof

Bala Ged

• Bojuka Bay

Guul Draz

• Hagra
• Pelakka

Swamps of Zhalfir

• Uuserk Marshes

Tokens

Test cards

Token name	Color	Type line	P/T	Text box	Source	Printings
Swamp		Land — Swamp		(: Add .)	Grek the Ogre