Utility land

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A utility land is a land that has a effect or ability other than generating mana.[1] These vary from destroying permanents to giving creatures increasing power, toughness, and evasion, and even to milling cards. Oftentimes, tapping the land and/or other lands is required to activate the abilities of the utility land.

Examples

Example

Kessig Wolf Run
Land
The tap symbol.: Add Colorless mana.
X generic manaRed manaGreen mana, The tap symbol.: Target creature gets +X/+0 and gains trample until end of turn.

Land cycles

There have been a number of cycles of utility lands throughout Magic's history.

Common cycles

Some functionalities are so common or prominent that they have their own article:

  • Utility tapland are the subgroup of utility lands with the most common balancing method, entering tapped.
  • Fetch lands do not produce mana but search for basic land or basic land types instead.
  • Manlands become creatures with a mana payment.
  • Striplands destroy other lands.
  • Rainbow Filter lands sometimes have additional abilities.
  • Typal lands often bestow things to their associated subtype.
  • Legendary land often have utility as a counterweight to being legendary.
  • Guildhalls are a cycle of colorless lands with two-color abilities.

Legends utility lands

An early set of utility legendary lands from iconic Dominaria locations. Each has an otherwise uncosted ability alongside providing colored mana.

Banding lands

This is a cycle of utility lands from Legends set. None of these lands tap for mana and has as their effect: [Color] legendary creatures you control have "bands with other legendary creatures."[2]

Alliances utility lands

Another set of the earliest utility lands, Alliances had a cycle of lands that required the sacrifice of the land of the appropriate type (untapped, if the land created two mana). While Lake of the Dead is by and large a mana land, the other four have relatively powerful repeatable effects.

Innistrad utility lands

This is a mega cycle of utility lands from Innistrad block. Each land taps for Colorless mana and has an activated ability with an activation cost that requires the two colors associated as well as a varying amount of generic mana. The allied colored lands represent a place or home for each main tribe on Innistrad.[3] The enemy lands are not connected to a tribe.

Blighted lands

This is a cycle of utility lands from Battle for Zendikar set. Each land produces Colorless mana and has an activated ability which sacrifices the land with an activation cost that requires the colored mana as well as a varying amount of generic mana.

Other utility lands

These are utility lands that are not part of a cycle. Most of them can add Colorless mana. However, some produce colored mana and others have no mana production.

One-shot (sacrifice) effects
Without mana production

References

  1. ↑ Sam Stoddard (October 9, 2015). "The Power of Lands". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast. Archived from the original on 2020-11-08.
  2. ↑ Magic Arcana (December 3, 2003). "Lands of bands". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast. Archived from the original on 2020-10-20.
  3. ↑ Magic Arcana (November 2, 2011). "A Bit of Atmosphere". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast. Archived from the original on 2020-10-20.
Basic lands
Nonbasic lands
Unreleased lands
and test cards
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