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Sandsteppe Citadel
Price$0.28 – $0.68
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Sandsteppe Citadel

Land

LegalRank #499

This land enters tapped.

{T}: Add {W}, {B}, or {G}.

Why is this card good?

Sandsteppe Citadel is a baseline three-color fixer for Abzan (WBG) decks — clean, reliable, and effectively free since lands don't compete for a card slot the way spells do. In a format where consistent access to all your colors is everything, taplands like this are the connective tissue holding greedy manabases together. The big drawback is obvious: it always enters tapped, costing you tempo. That matters most on turns one through three, and it stings in faster or more competitive Abzan builds (Karador, Ghave, aristocrats with explosive starts). In those decks you'd rather run untapped duals, shocklands, or fetch-fixed lands. Where it shines is in mid-power and casual Abzan/Sultai-adjacent decks that play long games and value fixing over speed — token strategies, lifegain, +1/+1 counters (Ghave, Korvold-style value piles). The triland's flexibility beats a tapped Temple here. Don't play it if your deck only needs two of its colors, or if you're optimizing for fast, low-curve starts where tapped lands kill your tempo.

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Savage LandsBRG

Same tapland cycle producing BRG, sister triland for three-color manabases.

Frontier BivouacURG

Tri-land cycle producing GUR, same fixing role for its colors.

Opulent PalaceUBG

Triome-style tapland for BUG, identical functional fixing.

Indatha TriomeWBG

WBG fetchable triome, direct upgrade with cycling and land types.

Arcane SanctumWUB

WUB tri-land tapland, same Khans cycle of three-color fixing.

Jungle ShrineWRG

RGW tri-land tapland from same fixing cycle.

Exotic OrchardC

Untapped flexible fixing alternative for multicolor manabases.

Command TowerC

Untapped any-commander-color source, premier multicolor fixing land.

Printings (14)

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tdmTarkir: Dragonstorm · #266U$0.28Buy
cmmCommander Masters · #1024U$0.31Buy
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oncPhyrexia: All Will Be One Commander · #162U$0.45Buy
dmcDominaria United Commander · #229U$0.32Buy
plstThe List · #KTK-241U$0.41Buy
c20Commander 2020 · #305U$0.33Buy
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cm2Commander Anthology Volume II · #264U$0.68Buy
c17Commander 2017 · #274U$0.34Buy
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cp3Magic Origins Clash Pack · #6U$1.56Buy
ktkKhans of Tarkir · #241U$0.36Buy

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