Price$29.84 – $40.66
Buy on TCGplayerOtawara, Soaring City
Legendary Land
LegalRemovalRank #90
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Channel — 
, Discard this card: Return target artifact, creature, enchantment, or planeswalker to its owner's hand. This ability costs 
less to activate for each legendary creature you control.
KeywordsChannel
Why is this card good?
Otawara is a near-auto-include in any deck running blue. It's a land that taps for mana when you don't need its ability, but doubles as flexible interaction you can deploy from your hand without spending a card slot. That's the key: you never feel bad drawing it, because it's a land first.
The Channel ability bounces almost anything — a problematic artifact, a blink-worthy creature, a planeswalker about to ult, or your own permanent to dodge removal or reuse an ETB. The cost reduction makes it absurd in legendary-heavy lists (Voltron, Kamigawa-themed, or any commander deck where your general counts), sometimes letting you bounce for just .
Decks that want it: literally any blue deck. It's especially strong in interaction-light pods where instant-speed answers from your hand are gold.
When to skip it: if you're tightly mana-hungry and every land needs to enter untapped while also fixing — it only makes , so heavy multicolor manabases occasionally cut it. Otherwise, run it.
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Decks that want it: literally any blue deck. It's especially strong in interaction-light pods where instant-speed answers from your hand are gold.
When to skip it: if you're tightly mana-hungry and every land needs to enter untapped while also fixing — it only makes , so heavy multicolor manabases occasionally cut it. Otherwise, run it.Related cards
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