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Land
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This land enters tapped unless you control two or more other lands.
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Why is this card good?
Haunted Ridge is one of the better dual lands for any Rakdos (or Mardu/Jund/Grixis) deck, and the reason is simple: its "enters tapped unless you control two or more other lands" clause is the least punishing tapped condition in the game. By turn three it's basically always untapped, and even on turn one or two you'll often hit the threshold. That makes it a near-strict upgrade over guildgates and most taplands.
It produces both colors with zero life loss, so it's a perfect fit in budget-to-mid-power BR decks — aristocrats, sacrifice, Rakdos midrange, dragons, whatever. It plays nicely alongside fetches, shocks, and painlands as a free, no-downside dual.
The only real knock is in high-powered or cEDH lists, where you genuinely want every land untapped on turns one and two for fast mana and early interaction; there, untapped duals (shocks, fastlands, true duals) edge it out. Otherwise, run it without a second thought.
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- 2021-09-24
If this land enters the battlefield at the same time as any number of other lands, those other lands are not counted when determining if this land enters the battlefield tapped or untapped.