Lay of the Land
Conspiracy: Take the Crown 185 • common
- Set
- Conspiracy: Take the Crown
- Collector number
- 185
- Rarity
- Common
- Mana cost
- green mana
- Type
- Sorcery
- Colors
- Green
- Artist
- Chuck Lukacs
- Market price
- $0.28
What it does
Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
Victory favors neither the righteous nor the wicked. It favors the prepared.
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
Lay of the Land was reprinted as card number 185 in the 2016 set Conspiracy: Take the Crown, a Magic: The Gathering expansion designed for draft-style multiplayer play. This set emphasized political maneuvering and board control, fitting the card’s simple utility of searching a library for a basic land card, which helps players stabilize their mana base during the complex games fostered by the set's unique mechanics.
The artwork for this version was illustrated by Titus Lunter, who crafted a sprawling, atmospheric landscape intended to evoke the expansive nature of the plane. His approach focused on natural scale and environmental depth, which was well-received by players for providing a clean, aesthetic look that allowed the card's functional text to remain the primary focus in a format defined by its high-stakes, social gameplay.
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