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Land
LegalRank #733
This land enters tapped.
: Add 
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: Put a +1/+1 counter on each green creature that entered this turn.
Why is this card good?
Oran-Rief is a free counters payoff stapled to a land, which is exactly why it's worth including in the right green deck — it costs you almost nothing but a tapped land slot.
The activated ability buffs every green creature that entered this turn, so it shines in go-wide green strategies: token swarms, elfball/Marwen, and any deck that dumps multiple creatures per turn (Selvala, Ezuri, Cathars' Crusade-style counter decks). It also quietly enables +1/+1 counter synergies — proliferate, Hardened Scales, Ezuri's experience triggers — without taking a real card slot. Casting one big creature per turn and tapping this still nets value, just less.
Caveats: it enters tapped, the counters only hit green creatures (multicolor counts, but colorless/artifact creatures don't), and you need to commit a turn's worth of creatures plus the tap. In creature-light spellslinger, lands-matter, or heavily off-color decks it does nothing but tap for green.
Bottom line: an easy include in dedicated green creature decks, a non-starter elsewhere.
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Hardened Scales
Synergizes by amplifying the +1/+1 counters added.
Branching Evolution
Doubles counters placed by Oran-Rief's ability.
Doubling Season
Multiplies the +1/+1 counters added each turn.
Gavony Township
Land that pumps your team with +1/+1 counters.
The Great Henge
Green payoff for big creatures entering, generating value.
Cathars' Crusade
Adds counters whenever creatures enter, similar counter theme.
Printings (11)
Played by these commanders
Freyalise, Llanowar's Fury100% of 2
Chishiro, the Shattered Blade100% of 1
Ezuri, Claw of Progress100% of 1
Hazel of the Rootbloom100% of 1
Adrix and Nev, Twincasters100% of 1
Zimone, Infinite Analyst100% of 1
Kalamax, the Stormsire100% of 1
Rulings (2)
- 2009-10-01
Oran-Rief's last ability affects all permanents that are green creatures that entered this turn, not just the ones you control.
- 2009-10-01
Oran-Rief's last ability cares about permanents' characteristics at the time the ability resolves, not their characteristics at the time they entered. For example, if a blue creature enters, then is turned green by a spell or ability, then Oran-Rief's second ability resolves, you'll put a +1/+1 counter on that creature.