Oracle text
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand. If another Desert was returned this way, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)
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Mox strategy
Arid Archway is a strong utility land for decks that can exploit land-bounce and Desert synergies. Its main appeal is producing 2 colorless mana, which is excellent for ramping into expensive artifacts, Eldrazi, or activations. The drawback is real: it enters tapped and makes you pick up a land, so it’s best in slower decks or lists that want lands in hand/graveyard.
It gets notably better with other Deserts, since returning a Desert gives surveil 1, adding card selection and graveyard setup. It also plays well with landfall, discard synergies, and any deck that can replay lands or doesn’t mind rebuying a utility land.
Best use cases: colorless-heavy decks, Desert decks, slow midrange/control shells, and strategies that want extra land-drop value.
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$0.39market (USD)
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USD Foil$0.75
EUR€0.60
EUR Foil€1.01
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Format legality
- standardLegal
- pioneerLegal
- modernLegal
- legacyLegal
- vintageLegal
- commanderLegal
- pauper—
- brawlLegal
- historicLegal
- alchemy—
- oathbreakerLegal