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Land — Island
LegalRank #172
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This land enters tapped unless you control three or more other Islands.
When this land enters untapped, you may put target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard on top of your library.
Why is this card good?
Mystic Sanctuary is a free, repeatable spell-recursion engine disguised as a land. In any heavily blue deck, rebuying a key instant or sorcery — a counterspell, board wipe, draw spell, or tutor — for the cost of a land drop is excellent value.
The real payoff is in dedicated combo and "spellslinger" lists. With ways to bounce and replay lands (Cloudstone Curio, Crucible of Worlds, or any land-return effect like Trade Routes), Sanctuary becomes a loop that puts a spell back on top each cycle — a common piece in High Tide/storm-style blue combo decks and infinite-mana payoff shells.
Wants it: mono-blue or blue-heavy control, spellslinger, and combo decks running enough basic Islands to enter untapped.
Skip it if: you're three-color-or-more with few true Islands (it'll almost always enter tapped and whiff), or your deck is creature/permanent-based with little graveyard-worthy instant/sorcery density. The "three other Islands" clause punishes greedy mana bases hard.
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Ghostly Flicker
Blink spell to re-trigger Sanctuary's enter-untapped recursion ability.
Printings (6)
Played by these commanders
Mirko, Obsessive Theorist100% of 1
Rootha, Mastering the Moment100% of 1
Combos (8)
- Ghostly Flicker + Mystic Sanctuary + Coveted Jewel
→ Near-infinite magecraft triggers, Near-infinite colored mana, Near-infinite landfall triggers
- Orvar, the All-Form + Mystic Sanctuary + Dream's Grip + Aquitect's Will + Archmage Emeritus
→ Infinite card draw, Infinite draw triggers, Near-infinite landfall triggers
- Ghostly Flicker + Mystic Sanctuary + Time Warp + Archaeomancer
→ Infinite turns, Skip your draw steps, Lock
- Tatyova, Benthic Druid + Doppelgang + Mystic Sanctuary
→ Infinite card draw, Near-infinite lifegain, Near-infinite lifegain triggers
- Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait + Walk the Aeons + Mystic Sanctuary + Ramunap Excavator
→ Infinite turns, Lock
- Ghostly Flicker + Mystic Sanctuary + Sol Ring + The Reality Chip
→ Infinite landfall triggers, Infinite magecraft triggers, Infinite storm count