Magic: The Gathering

Holdout Settlement

Oath of the Gatewatch 172 • common

Set: Oath of the Gatewatch
Collector number: 172
Rarity: Common
Type: Land
Colors: Colorless
Artist: Kieran Yanner
Market price: $0.21

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$0.21market price via TCGplayer · Aug 19, 2026$0.19 – $0.31 over the tracked period

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Lore

Why it matters

As a utility land, Holdout Settlement offers a practical way to manage resources by tapping your other creatures to generate mana. Its common rarity makes it a widely accessible tool for players looking to smooth out their deck’s consistency during a match.

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Card face

What it does

tap: Add colorless mana. (colorless mana represents colorless mana.)

tap, Tap an untapped creature you control: Add one mana of any color.

Even in areas of profound devastation, the hedrons remained intact.

Formats

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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Provenance

Where it came from

Holdout Settlement was released in early 2016 as part of the Oath of the Gatewatch expansion for Magic: The Gathering. Set against the backdrop of the Zendikar plane, the card reflects the desperate resistance of the remaining denizens against the encroaching Eldrazi titans. Mechanically, it represents the necessity of teamwork, allowing players to tap a creature to generate colorless mana, underscoring the narrative theme of unity and collective survival that defined the set's storyline.

The artwork was provided by Kieran Yanner, who captured the desolate, fortified aesthetic typical of the set's common land cycle. Yanner’s design focuses on the makeshift nature of the landscape, emphasizing stone-hewn structures and weathered textures that convey a sense of a world under siege. Upon its release, the card was received as a functional utility land, prized by players for its ability to provide mana flexibility in limited formats, particularly in aggressive archetypes that could leverage spare creatures to fuel their resource pool.

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Holdout SettlementStarter Commander Decks · #305 · common · 2022$0.25

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