Breeding Pool
Edge of Eternities 278 • rare
- Set
- Edge of Eternities
- Collector number
- 278
- Rarity
- Rare
- Type
- Land
- Colors
- Colorless
- Artist
- Chris Ostrowski
- Market price
- $10.87
What it does
(tap: Add green mana or blue mana.)
As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.
Where you can play it
- StandardLegal
- PioneerLegal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperNot legal
- BrawlLegal
- HistoricLegal
- TimelessLegal
- Penny DreadfulLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Breeding Pool was originally introduced as a cornerstone of the Ravnica: City of Guilds expansion in 2005. As a 'shock land,' it was designed to offer players a flexible mana base by allowing them to choose between entering the battlefield tapped or paying two life to untap it immediately, a mechanic that defined competitive deck-building for years. It represents the Simic Combine, a faction dedicated to the synthesis of nature and artifice, which dictated the card’s thematic focus on biological fusion.
The artistry behind the card, particularly in its updated iterations like the one featured in Edge of Eternities, draws from the dense, overgrown laboratories of Ravnica. Illustrators for the series have historically focused on the juxtaposition of lush, aquatic vegetation and complex, engineered structures to mirror the Simic philosophy. The card has been widely lauded by the community for its mechanical efficiency and its visual representation of the plane's unique ecosystem.
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