USD
$122.16
EUR
€73.65
Lake of the Dead
Land
If this land would enter, sacrifice a Swamp instead. If you do, put this land onto the battlefield. If you don't, put it into its owner's graveyard.
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, Sacrifice a Swamp: Add .
- Set
- Alliances (ALL #140)
- Rarity
- Rare
- Mana value
- 0
- Released
- 1996-06-10
- Artist
- Pete Venters
- EDHREC rank
- #5,330
- Colour identity
- Finishes
- Nonfoil
- Served from
- Local database
Commander bracket
1
+
Fits any bracket
No Game Changer, land denial, extra turns or two-card combos.
Derived from card traits, not a ruling — bracket rules turn on how a deck intends to use a card. Bracket rules
EDHREC
Salt Score
0.59
How much players resent seeing this card. The scale tops out around 3.1.
Combos 1
Stone-Seeder Hierophant+Lake of the Dead+Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth+Drownyard Temple
Infinite black manaInfinite landfall triggers
20 decks
Commander Spellbook ↗
Format legality
Standard
Not legal
Pioneer
Not legal
Modern
Not legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Pauper
Not legal
Commander
Legal
Oathbreaker
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Brawl
Not legal
Standard Brawl
Not legal
Historic
Not legal
Timeless
Not legal
Alchemy
Not legal
Penny
Not legal
Premodern
Legal
PreDH
Legal
Pauper EDH
Not legal
Old School
Not legal
Future
Not legal
Gladiator
Not legal
Rulings
- 2004-10-04
The tap and sacrifice counts as tapping the land for mana.
- 2004-10-04
You have to sacrifice a swamp before this card is put onto the battlefield. And you have to do this no matter how it is put onto the battlefield.