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Canyon Slough
Price$0.22 – $1.92
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Canyon Slough

Land — Swamp Mountain

LegalCard DrawRank #702

({T}: Add {B} or {R}.)

This land enters tapped.

Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

KeywordsCycling

Why is this card good?

Canyon Slough is a quietly excellent dual land for Rakdos decks, and its value comes from two things working together: it has both basic land types (Swamp Mountain) and it can be cycled when you don't need lands. The basic types matter more than people realize. It fetches with Blood Crypt-style shocklands? No — it's fetchable by anything looking for a Swamp or Mountain (Evolving Wilds, Fabled Passage, Wood Elves-style effects), and it gets boosted by domain/landfall payoffs. The cycling is the real selling point: in the late game, a tapped land is dead weight, so paying {2} to draw a fresh card smooths out flood and mana-screw alike. Play it in basically any two-color (or more) BR deck where you can afford a tapland — midrange, aristocrats, spellslinger, ramp. The downside is real, though: it always enters tapped, which hurts aggressive or low-curve decks that need their mana untapped on early turns. Skip it if your deck is hyper-fast or your mana base can't absorb taplands.

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