Academy Ruins
The List 2XM-309 • rare
- Set
- The List
- Collector number
- 2XM-309
- Rarity
- Rare
- Type
- Land
- Colors
- Colorless
- Artist
- Zoltan Boros & Gabor Szikszai
- Market price
- $10.00
What it does
tap: Add colorless mana.
1 generic mana blue mana, tap: Put target artifact card from your graveyard on top of your library.
Its secrets once wrought the greatest artifice ever known. Now crabs loot the rubble to decorate their shells.
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperNot legal
- BrawlNot legal
- HistoricNot legal
- TimelessNot legal
- Penny DreadfulLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Academy Ruins was originally released in the 2006 Magic: The Gathering expansion Time Spiral. Designed as a utility land that allows players to return artifacts from their graveyard to the top of their library, the card was conceptualized to reflect the set's theme of revisiting past mechanics and historical settings within the game's lore. The original illustration by Zoltan Boros and Gabor Szikszai captures a sense of desolate, ancient majesty, depicting the crumbled remnants of a grand structure submerged in a mystical landscape.
The version from 'The List'—specifically appearing with the 2XM-309 collector number—is a direct reprint of the card as it appeared in the Double Masters set. 'The List' is a curated selection of reprints included in Set Boosters, designed to provide players with access to older, iconic, or mechanically significant cards while maintaining the aesthetic integrity of the original printings. As a powerful engine for artifact-heavy strategies, Academy Ruins has remained a staple in formats like Commander and Modern, prized for its ability to create recursive loops and maintain battlefield control.
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