Price$0.25 – $4.06
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Land
LegalRank #842
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. This land deals 1 damage to you.
Threshold — , , Sacrifice this land: Target player draws three cards, then discards three cards. Activate only if there are seven or more cards in your graveyard.
KeywordsThreshold
Why is this card good?
Cephalid Coliseum is a land that doubles as a card-advantage outlet once you hit threshold — and that "draws three, then discards three" is far better than it looks for the right deck.
The discard isn't a downside in graveyard and reanimator strategies; it's the point. Targeting yourself to dump fatties or flashback fodder, then digging three deeper, makes this a genuine engine piece. It's also a single-target donate trick: forcing an opponent to discard three can disrupt a combo player's hand, though they pick the cards.
Best homes: blue-based reanimator (Muldrotha, The Mimeotaph), spellslinger/threshold decks, and self-mill shells that easily reach seven cards in the yard. The 1 damage per tap is negligible.
When not to play it: decks that don't fill their graveyard, since threshold gates the relevant ability — otherwise it's just a painland that taps for one color. Also skip it in low-to-the-ground aggressive lists where you can't afford a land entering or being sacrificed for value mid-game.
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