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Land
LegalGame Changer Salt 1.47Rank #448
This land enters tapped.
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Whenever this land or another land you control enters, if you control seven or more lands with different names, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.
Why is this card good?
Field of the Dead turns your land drops into a recurring army, and in Commander—where games go long and you naturally hit huge land counts—the seven-different-names condition is almost trivial to satisfy. Once online, every fetch, every land off a ramp spell, even multiple lands per turn, each spits out a 2/2 Zombie. It snowballs hard.
Where it shines:
- Landfall / lands-matter decks (Lord Windgrace, Omnath, Tatyova) that play lots of lands and extra land drops.
- Token/aristocrats shells that want bodies to sacrifice or go wide with anthems.
- Grindy midrange that needs an inevitable, mana-free win condition.
The key deckbuilding tax: minimize basic-land duplicates. Run snow basics or singleton-heavy manabases, and lean on fetches/utility lands to maximize unique names.
Skip it if you run many duplicate basics, play a fast combo or low-land-count deck, or want early action—it enters tapped and does nothing relevant until you've built up. It's a Game Changer for a reason: in the right deck, it's an engine; in the wrong one, it's a tapped wasteland.
Related cards
Scapeshift
Fetches many differently-named lands at once to trigger Field's Zombie payoff.
Splendid Reclamation
Returns numerous lands from graveyard, triggering Field's tokens en masse.
Ramunap Excavator
Recurs fetchland-grabbed lands repeatedly, generating many land-enter triggers.
Crucible of Worlds
Replay fetched lands each turn for repeated Field triggers.
Prismatic Vista
Differently-named fetchland fuels land count and triggers on each fetch.
Evolving Wilds
Cheap fetch adding distinct land names and extra ETB land triggers.
Roiling Regrowth
Sacrifices land to fetch two basics, triggering Field multiple times.
Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle
Synergistic landfall payoff land often paired with Field in ramp shells.
Printings (7)
Combos (8)
- Kodama of the East Tree + Simic Growth Chamber + Field of the Dead
→ Infinite ETB, Infinite creature tokens, Infinite landfall triggers
- Kodama of the East Tree + Golgari Rot Farm + Field of the Dead
→ Infinite ETB, Infinite creature tokens, Infinite landfall triggers
- Kodama of the East Tree + Gruul Turf + Field of the Dead
→ Infinite ETB, Infinite creature tokens, Infinite landfall triggers
- Kodama of the East Tree + Selesnya Sanctuary + Field of the Dead
→ Infinite ETB, Infinite creature tokens, Infinite landfall triggers
- Kodama of the East Tree + Guildless Commons + Field of the Dead
→ Infinite ETB, Infinite creature tokens, Infinite landfall triggers
- Kodama of the East Tree + Oboro, Palace in the Clouds + Field of the Dead
→ Infinite creature tokens, Infinite ETB, Infinite landfall triggers
Tokens & Emblemsthis card creates
Rulings (3)
- 2019-07-12
Field of the Dead's last ability counts itself and the land entering the battlefield in addition to whichever other lands you control.
- 2019-07-12
If you control multiple lands with the same name, only one of those lands will count toward the seven or more required to create a Zombie. For example, if you control four lands named Plains, two named Island, and one named Field of the Dead, you control three lands with different names.
- 2019-07-12
If multiple lands enter the battlefield simultaneously, possibly including Field of the Dead itself, all of those lands are counted. For example, if you sacrifice eight lands while resolving Scapeshift and search your library for five different basic land cards, two Field of the Dead cards, and one other land card with a different name, you'll create sixteen Zombie tokens.