Price$0.22 – $1.92
Buy on TCGplayerCanyon Slough
Land — Swamp Mountain
LegalCard DrawRank #702
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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 
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.
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.Related cards
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Printings (17)
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