Price$0.31 – $1.07
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Land
LegalRank #424
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Why is this card good?
Tainted Wood is a quietly excellent dual land for two-color Golgari decks — and a sneaky-good fixer in mono-black or mono-green builds that splash off-color.
The key insight: it enters untapped and produces both your colors with no life loss (unlike pain lands or shocks), conditional only on controlling a Swamp. In a BG deck, you'll almost always have a Swamp, so it's effectively a strictly-upgraded dual that even taps for colorless as a fallback. That makes it far more reliable than the condition suggests.
Who wants it:
- Golgari aristocrats, graveyard, and +1/+1 counter decks needing clean fixing.
- Black-based decks splashing green where a single Swamp turns it on.
- Budget builds — it's cheap and outperforms its price.
When to skip it: Green-heavy decks with few or no Swamps, where it risks producing only colorless. It's also outclassed in cutthroat cEDH by fetch/dual packages, but for 95% of pods it's a clean, painless include.
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Tainted Peak
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Tainted Field
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Tainted Isle
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Llanowar Wastes
BG painland fixing for the same color pair.
Woodland Cemetery
BG check land that enters untapped with a Swamp or Forest.
Overgrown Tomb
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Twilight Mire
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Printings (13)
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