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Land
LegalRank #275
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)
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KeywordsScry
Why is this card good?
Temple of Silence is a rock-solid dual land for any Orzhov (W/B) deck. The scry 1 on entry smooths your draws and helps fix early hands — a small but real edge over a basic land, especially in midrange and control decks that care about hitting land drops and sculpting their topdecks.
The tradeoff is it enters tapped, which is a meaningful tempo cost. In faster aristocrats, weenie aggro, or any deck trying to win early, losing a turn of mana matters more than the scry. It's best in slower, value-oriented Orzhov decks — control, lifegain, reanimator, sacrifice engines — where the smoothing pays off and the tempo hit is negligible.
Don't run it in mono-color decks (you'd rather have an untapped basic) or in cutthroat lists where every tapped land slows your clock. But for casual-to-mid-power two-color builds, it's an easy, cheap include that improves consistency. Pure upside over a tapped basic.
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