Price$0.61

Bridgeworks Battle // Tanglespan Bridgeworks

Sorcery // Land

LegalRank #706

Target creature you control gets +2/+2 until end of turn. It fights up to one target creature you don't control. (Each deals damage equal to its power to the other.)

As this land enters, you may pay 3 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

{T} : Add {G} .

KeywordsFight

Why is this card good?

Bridgeworks Battle // Tanglespan Bridgeworks is a flexible double-faced card (MDFC) that solves a real deckbuilding tension: removal vs. land count. You can run it as functional removal early, or slot it in as a land when you're flooded on action but light on lands. The fight half is solid green spot removal — the +2/+2 buff means even a 3/3 can kill most threats and survive, and it scales beautifully with a big commander or a deck full of fat creatures (Gruul beats, Ghalta, hydras, +1/+1 counters). It also doubles as a combat trick in a pinch. Where it shines is reducing nonland slots while keeping your manabase intact — exactly what midrange and stompy green decks want. The 3-life-to-untap option is trivial at most tables. Skip it in decks with few or small creatures (spellslinger, lands-matter, control), where the fight clause is dead. There you'd rather run unconditional removal like Beast Within.

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Rulings (9)

2024-06-07
A modal double-faced card can't be transformed or be put onto the battlefield transformed. Ignore any instruction to transform a modal double-faced card or to put one onto the battlefield transformed.
2024-06-07
You can cast Bridgeworks Battle targeting only the creature you control.
2024-06-07
If you choose two target creatures and either target is an illegal target as Bridgeworks Battle tries to resolve, neither creature will deal or be dealt damage.
2024-06-07
If the creature you control is an illegal target as Bridgeworks Battle tries to resolve, no creature gets +2/+2. If that creature is a legal target but the creature you don't control isn't, the creature you control still gets +2/+2.
2024-06-07
To determine whether it is legal to play a modal double-faced card, consider only the characteristics of the face you're playing and ignore the other face's characteristics. For example, if an effect stops you from casting creature spells, you can't cast Disciple of Freyalise, but you can still play Garden of Freyalise.
2024-06-07
If an effect allows you to play a specific modal double-faced card, you may cast it as a spell or play it as a land, as determined by which face you choose to play. If an effect allows you to cast (rather than "play") a specific modal double-faced card, you can't play it as a land.
2024-06-07
If an effect allows you to play a land or cast a spell from among a group of cards, you may play or cast a modal double-faced card with any face that fits the criteria of that effect. For example, if an effect allows you to play lands from your graveyard, you can play Garden of Freyalise, but you can't cast Disciple of Freyalise.
2024-06-07
If an effect allows you to put a card with particular characteristics onto the battlefield without instructing you to play or cast it, you consider only the characteristics of a modal double-faced card's front face to see if that card qualifies. If it does, it enters the battlefield with its front face up. For example, if an effect allows you to put a creature card from your graveyard onto the battlefield, you can put Disciple of Freyalise onto the battlefield. However, an effect that lets you return a land card from your graveyard to your hand won't let you return Garden of Freyalise to your hand, as that card has only its front face's characteristics while in the graveyard.
2024-06-07
The mana value of a modal double-faced card is based on the characteristics of the face that's being considered. On the stack or the battlefield, consider whichever face is up. In all other zones, consider only the front face. This is different than how the mana value of a transforming double-faced card is determined.

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Rulings (9)

2024-06-07

A modal double-faced card can't be transformed or be put onto the battlefield transformed. Ignore any instruction to transform a modal double-faced card or to put one onto the battlefield transformed.

2024-06-07

You can cast Bridgeworks Battle targeting only the creature you control.

2024-06-07

If you choose two target creatures and either target is an illegal target as Bridgeworks Battle tries to resolve, neither creature will deal or be dealt damage.

2024-06-07

If the creature you control is an illegal target as Bridgeworks Battle tries to resolve, no creature gets +2/+2. If that creature is a legal target but the creature you don't control isn't, the creature you control still gets +2/+2.

2024-06-07

To determine whether it is legal to play a modal double-faced card, consider only the characteristics of the face you're playing and ignore the other face's characteristics. For example, if an effect stops you from casting creature spells, you can't cast Disciple of Freyalise, but you can still play Garden of Freyalise.

2024-06-07

If an effect allows you to play a specific modal double-faced card, you may cast it as a spell or play it as a land, as determined by which face you choose to play. If an effect allows you to cast (rather than "play") a specific modal double-faced card, you can't play it as a land.

2024-06-07

If an effect allows you to play a land or cast a spell from among a group of cards, you may play or cast a modal double-faced card with any face that fits the criteria of that effect. For example, if an effect allows you to play lands from your graveyard, you can play Garden of Freyalise, but you can't cast Disciple of Freyalise.

2024-06-07

If an effect allows you to put a card with particular characteristics onto the battlefield without instructing you to play or cast it, you consider only the characteristics of a modal double-faced card's front face to see if that card qualifies. If it does, it enters the battlefield with its front face up. For example, if an effect allows you to put a creature card from your graveyard onto the battlefield, you can put Disciple of Freyalise onto the battlefield. However, an effect that lets you return a land card from your graveyard to your hand won't let you return Garden of Freyalise to your hand, as that card has only its front face's characteristics while in the graveyard.

2024-06-07

The mana value of a modal double-faced card is based on the characteristics of the face that's being considered. On the stack or the battlefield, consider whichever face is up. In all other zones, consider only the front face. This is different than how the mana value of a transforming double-faced card is determined.