Price$0.22 – $0.32
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Land
LegalRank #848
, Why is this card good?
Escape Tunnel is a flexible utility land that asks almost nothing of your deck — it taps for nothing on its own, but it's never a dead draw.
The first mode is a colorless "fetchland" that thins your deck and fixes for a basic. It's slow (enters tapped) but it triggers landfall, fuels delirium/graveyard synergies as a sacrificed land, and helps you hit colors in greedy multicolor builds. The second mode is the real selling point in the right deck: making a small creature unblockable.
Wants it: commander-damage and "small creature" decks — think voltron pilots on cheap evasive bodies, infect/toxic, or combat-trigger creatures (ninjutsu enablers, saboteurs like Cold-Eyed Selkie). Also fine generic fixing in any deck since the fetch mode is always live.
Skip it if your creatures routinely have power 3+, if you can't afford tapped lands (cEDH, low land counts), or if you don't need the fixing — a basic or a real dual usually serves better.
It's a niche-but-clean role-player, not a staple.
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Printings (3)
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