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Land — Gate
LegalRank #585
When this land enters, up to one target creature phases out.
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: Put this card from your hand onto the battlefield.
Why is this card good?
Talon Gates of Madara is a flexible utility land that punches above a colorless source's weight. The phase-out ETB is the headline: it's removal-adjacent disruption that works on your own stuff too.
Why it's good:
- Phase out an enemy attacker/blocker for a tempo swing, or save your own creature from a board wipe or targeted removal (phasing dodges it entirely, returning untapped with counters/auras intact).
- The "put onto battlefield" clause lets you flash it in at instant speed during combat or in response to a wipe — that flexibility is what makes it special.
- It fixes any color, so it slots into literally any deck as a near-free inclusion.
Best homes: decks that want a reusable protection effect or combat trick — control, blink/value, or any list running blue/multicolor that hates a key creature dying. It's also great in mono-color decks needing fixing for splash hybrid/Phyrexian costs.
When not to: hyper-fast or untapped-lands-matter decks where it sometimes enters tapped via the mode. Otherwise, an easy include.
"put onto battlefield" clause lets you flash it in at instant speed during combat or in response to a wipe — that flexibility is what makes it special.
- It fixes any color, so it slots into literally any deck as a near-free inclusion.
Best homes: decks that want a reusable protection effect or combat trick — control, blink/value, or any list running blue/multicolor that hates a key creature dying. It's also great in mono-color decks needing fixing for splash hybrid/Phyrexian costs.
When not to: hyper-fast or untapped-lands-matter decks where it sometimes enters tapped via the mode. Otherwise, an easy include.Related cards
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Printings (2)
Played by these commanders
Omo, Queen of Vesuva100% of 2
Combos (8)
- Oboro Breezecaller + Talon Gates of Madara + Gaea's Cradle
→ Infinite mana lands you control can produce, Infinite green mana, Infinite landfall triggers
- Oboro Breezecaller + Talon Gates of Madara + Serra's Sanctum
→ Infinite mana lands you control can produce, Infinite landfall triggers, Infinite white mana
- Oboro Breezecaller + Talon Gates of Madara + Storm the Vault // Vault of Catlacan
→ Infinite mana lands you control can produce, Infinite blue mana, Infinite landfall triggers
- Oboro Breezecaller + Talon Gates of Madara + Matzalantli, the Great Door // The Core
→ Infinite colored mana, Infinite mana lands you control can produce, Infinite landfall triggers
- Emet-Selch, Unsundered // Hades, Sorcerer of Eld + Talon Gates of Madara + Trench Behemoth + Temporal Manipulation
→ Infinite turns, Lock
- Emet-Selch, Unsundered // Hades, Sorcerer of Eld + Talon Gates of Madara + Meticulous Excavation + Time Warp
→ Infinite turns, Lock
Rulings (8)
- 2024-06-07
Phased-out permanents are treated as though they don't exist. They can't be the targets of spells or abilities, their static abilities have no effect on the game, their triggered abilities can't trigger, they can't attack or block, and so on.
- 2024-06-07
As a permanent is phased out, Auras and Equipment attached to it also phase out at the same time. Those Auras and Equipment will phase in at the same time that permanent does, and they'll phase in still attached to that permanent.
- 2024-06-07
Permanents phase back in during their controller's untap step, immediately before that player untaps their permanents. Creatures that phase in this way are able to attack during that turn, and their activated abilities with
in their costs can be activated. If a permanent had counters on it when it phased out, it will have those counters when it phases back in. - 2024-06-07
An attacking or blocking creature that phases out is removed from combat.
- 2024-06-07
Phasing out doesn't cause any "leaves the battlefield" abilities to trigger. Similarly, phasing in won't cause any "enters the battlefield" abilities to trigger.
- 2024-06-07
Any continuous effects with a "for as long as" duration ignore phased-out objects. If ignoring those objects causes the effect's conditions to no longer be met, the duration will expire.
- 2024-06-07
Choices made for permanents as they entered the battlefield are remembered when they phase in.
- 2024-06-07
When you activate Talon Gates of Madara's last ability, you must reveal Talon Gates of Madara from your hand until that ability resolves or otherwise leaves the stack. If Talon Gates of Madara isn't still in your hand as that ability resolves, nothing happens.