Boseiju, Who Shelters All

Legendary Land

Boseiju, Who Shelters All enters the battlefield tapped.

{T}, Pay 2 life: Add {1} to your mana pool. If that mana is spent on an instant or sorcery spell, that spell can't be countered by spells or abilities.

Illus. Ralph Horsley

Gatherer Card Rulings?, Legality?

• 12/1/2004: The spell can't be countered if the mana produced by Boseiju is spent to cover any cost of the spell, even an additional cost such as a splice cost. This is true even if you pay an additional cost while casting a spell "without paying its mana cost."
• 12/1/2004: Suppose mana produced by Boseiju is spent on a spell and an effect creates a copy of that spell. The copy can be countered, even though the original can't.

• Legal in Vintage (Type 1)
• Legal in Legacy (Type 1.5)
• Legal in Classic (MTGO)
• Legal in Commander
• Legal in Modern

Eiganjo Castle

Legendary Land

{T}: Add {W} to your mana pool.

{W}, {T}: Prevent the next 2 damage that would be dealt to target legendary creature this turn.

Since the war began, the castle's walls mark the only place on Kamigawa where no kami has ever set foot.

Illus. Wayne England

Gatherer Card Rulings?, Legality?

• Legal in Vintage (Type 1)
• Legal in Legacy (Type 1.5)
• Legal in Classic (MTGO)
• Legal in Commander
• Legal in Modern

Hall of the Bandit Lord

Legendary Land

Hall of the Bandit Lord enters the battlefield tapped.

{T}, Pay 3 life: Add {1} to your mana pool. If that mana is spent on a creature spell, it gains haste.

Illus. Paolo Parente

Gatherer Card Rulings?, Legality?

• 12/1/2004: The creature has haste if the mana is spent to cover any cost of the spell, even an additional cost.
• 12/1/2004: The effect that grants haste doesn't wear off at end of turn.

• Legal in Vintage (Type 1)
• Legal in Legacy (Type 1.5)
• Legal in Classic (MTGO)
• Legal in Commander
• Legal in Modern

Mikokoro, Center of the Sea

Legendary Land

{T}: Add {1} to your mana pool.

{2}, {T}: Each player draws a card.

"Center of the Sea, Eye of the World, Shrine of Enlightenment. Seek it for answers. Seek it for healing. Seek it and return transformed."
—Scroll fragment from the ruins of Minamo

Illus. John Avon

Gatherer Card Rulings?, Legality?

• Legal in Vintage (Type 1)
• Legal in Legacy (Type 1.5)
• Legal in Classic (MTGO)
• Legal in Commander
• Legal in Modern

Minamo, School at Water's Edge

Legendary Land

{T}: Add {U} to your mana pool.

{U}, {T}: Untap target legendary permanent.

Its students graduate the school and enter history.

Illus. Jeremy Jarvis

Gatherer Card Rulings?, Legality?

• Legal in Vintage (Type 1)
• Legal in Legacy (Type 1.5)
• Legal in Classic (MTGO)
• Legal in Commander
• Legal in Modern

Miren, the Moaning Well

Legendary Land

{T}: Add {1} to your mana pool.

{3}, {T}, Sacrifice a creature: You gain life equal to the sacrificed creature's toughness.

Illus. Rob Alexander

Gatherer Card Rulings?, Legality?

• Legal in Vintage (Type 1)
• Legal in Legacy (Type 1.5)
• Legal in Classic (MTGO)
• Legal in Commander
• Legal in Modern

Oboro, Palace in the Clouds

Legendary Land

{T}: Add {U} to your mana pool.

{1}: Return Oboro, Palace in the Clouds to its owner's hand.

Here the soratami wove their endless plots—graceful, artful, and deceitful, while the unwitting world moved below.

Illus. Rob Alexander

Gatherer Card Rulings?, Legality?

• Legal in Vintage (Type 1)
• Legal in Legacy (Type 1.5)
• Legal in Classic (MTGO)
• Legal in Commander
• Legal in Modern

Okina, Temple to the Grandfathers

Legendary Land

{T}: Add {G} to your mana pool.

{G}, {T}: Target legendary creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

If a land can be said to have a heart, Okina is the heart of Kamigawa.

Illus. Keith Garletts

Gatherer Card Rulings?, Legality?

• Legal in Vintage (Type 1)
• Legal in Legacy (Type 1.5)
• Legal in Classic (MTGO)
• Legal in Commander
• Legal in Modern

Shinka, the Bloodsoaked Keep

Legendary Land

{T}: Add {R} to your mana pool.

{R}, {T}: Target legendary creature gains first strike until end of turn.

The glow from within looks inviting, but woe awaits whomever finds out who stokes the fire or what simmers in the pot.

Illus. Thomas M. Baxa

Gatherer Card Rulings?, Legality?

• Legal in Vintage (Type 1)
• Legal in Legacy (Type 1.5)
• Legal in Classic (MTGO)
• Legal in Commander
• Legal in Modern

Shizo, Death's Storehouse

Legendary Land

{T}: Add {B} to your mana pool.

{B}, {T}: Target legendary creature gains fear until end of turn. (It can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)

Centuries ago, Shizo was a verdant field of wildflowers. After 891 samurai died in a single battle on its grasses, it became a haunted moor.

Illus. John Matson

Gatherer Card Rulings?, Legality?

• Legal in Vintage (Type 1)
• Legal in Legacy (Type 1.5)
• Legal in Classic (MTGO)
• Legal in Commander
• Legal in Modern

Tomb of Urami

Legendary Land

{T}: Add {B} to your mana pool. Tomb of Urami deals 1 damage to you if you don't control an Ogre.

{2}{B}{B}, {T}, Sacrifice all lands you control: Put a legendary 5/5 black Demon Spirit creature token with flying named Urami onto the battlefield.

Illus. Alex Horley-Orlandelli

Gatherer Card Rulings?, Legality?

• 6/1/2005: Activating Tomb of Urami's second ability requires sacrificing all lands you control, including Tomb of Urami.

• Legal in Vintage (Type 1)
• Legal in Legacy (Type 1.5)
• Legal in Classic (MTGO)
• Legal in Commander
• Legal in Modern

Untaidake, the Cloud Keeper

Legendary Land

Untaidake, the Cloud Keeper enters the battlefield tapped.

{T}, Pay 2 life: Add {2} to your mana pool. Spend this mana only to cast legendary spells.

Untaidake is the needle that weaves the fabric of creation.

Illus. John Avon

Gatherer Card Rulings?, Legality?

• Legal in Vintage (Type 1)
• Legal in Legacy (Type 1.5)
• Legal in Classic (MTGO)
• Legal in Commander
• Legal in Modern