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Land
LegalRank #111
This land enters tapped unless you control an Island or a Swamp.
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Why is this card good?
Drowned Catacomb is a workhorse dual land for any Dimir (UB) deck. Its conditional untapped clause is the key selling point: as long as you control a basic Island or Swamp, it comes in untapped, which in practice is most of the time after your first land drop. That makes it strictly better than a guildgate or tapland in nearly every two-color black-blue list.
The catch is the "basic" requirement — it cares about typed lands, not just any Island/Swamp. So in a deck packed with shocklands, triomes, and other typed duals it's nearly always untapped, but in a fetchland-heavy or basic-light build it can stumble early.
Play it in essentially any Dimir deck: control, mill, reanimator, theft, you name it. The only reason to skip it is if you're going hard on a fast/cEDH manabase where you'd rather run fetch-tutorable typed duals, or if you're mono-color. Otherwise, it's a cheap, reliable staple.
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