Island
Mercadian Masques 336 • common
- Set
- Mercadian Masques
- Collector number
- 336
- Rarity
- Common
- Type
- Land
- Colors
- Colorless
- Artist
- Scott Bailey
- Market price
- $0.48
What it does
(tap: Add blue mana.)
Where you can play it
- StandardLegal
- PioneerLegal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperLegal
- BrawlLegal
- HistoricLegal
- TimelessLegal
- Penny DreadfulLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Released in 1999 as part of the Mercadian Masques expansion for Magic: The Gathering, this basic Island card represents the artistic shift toward the setting of Mercadia, a plane characterized by its sprawling, industrial, and vertically oriented cityscape. The card was designed to reflect the aesthetic of a world governed by mercantilism and unusual architecture, moving away from the more traditional, naturalistic depictions of basic lands found in earlier sets.
The illustration was rendered by artist Rob Alexander, a staple of the Magic: The Gathering art department during the late 1990s. Alexander was tasked with translating the conceptual lore of Mercadia—a world where the wealthy lived above the clouds—into the visual language of a basic land. His work on this set is recognized for its moody lighting and expansive, slightly alien sense of perspective, which sought to immerse players in the specific atmosphere of the expansion.
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