Contaminated Ground
Gatecrash 59 • common
- Set
- Gatecrash
- Collector number
- 59
- Rarity
- Common
- Mana cost
- 1 generic mana black mana
- Type
- Enchantment
- Colors
- Black
- Artist
- Christine Choi
- Market price
- $0.16
What it does
Enchant land
Enchanted land is a Swamp.
Whenever enchanted land becomes tapped, its controller loses 2 life.
"No one cares about pollution until they can see it."— Gurras, Golgari rot farmer
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerLegal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperLegal
- BrawlNot legal
- HistoricNot legal
- TimelessNot legal
- Penny DreadfulNot legal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Contaminated Ground was released in 2013 as part of the Gatecrash expansion for the Magic: The Gathering trading card game. Developed by Wizards of the Coast, this set focused on the five guilds residing within the city-plane of Ravnica, with the card itself appearing as a common-rarity enchantment intended to provide players with land-disruption utility in limited and constructed formats.
The card features illustration by Kev Walker, a prolific artist known for his dark and visceral contributions to the game. Walker’s aesthetic for this piece captures the theme of ecological decay, using a muted, sickly color palette to visually represent the card’s mechanical effect of corrupting a target land into a source of black mana. Upon release, the card was received as a standard tactical tool for players looking to manipulate mana bases in the Ravnica block environment.
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