Breeding Pool
Gatecrash 240 • rare
- Set
- Gatecrash
- Collector number
- 240
- Rarity
- Rare
- Type
- Land
- Colors
- Colorless
- Artist
- Mike Bierek
- Market price
- $10.11
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.
Uncharted depths. Unbounded hopes. Unfathomable mysteries.
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 to the Magic: The Gathering card game in the 2005 set Dissension, representing one of the ten iconic dual lands associated with the plane of Ravnica. This specific iteration hails from the 2013 Gatecrash expansion, which revisited the city-plane and its guild-based political system. The design reflects the Simic Combine, a guild focused on biological experimentation and adaptation, blending the mana identities of blue and green to represent the intersection of nature and scientific manipulation.
The artwork for this version was rendered by illustrator Noah Bradley, who aimed to capture the fluid, ethereal, and slightly overgrown aesthetic of a Simic laboratory. The card's design features the mechanic of allowing a player to pay two life to have the land enter the battlefield untapped, a trade-off that has made it a staple in competitive formats like Modern and Commander. It is widely regarded by players for its utility in mana fixing and its evocative depiction of the world-spanning city's unique architectural and organic fusion.
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