Plains
Shards of Alara 231 • common
- Set
- Shards of Alara
- Collector number
- 231
- Rarity
- Common
- Type
- Land
- Colors
- Colorless
- Artist
- Michael Komarck
- Market price
- $0.31
What it does
(tap: Add white 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 October 2008 as part of the Shards of Alara expansion for Magic: The Gathering, this Plains card represents the distinct aesthetic shift introduced in the set. Wizards of the Coast designed Shards of Alara around the concept of a broken world, where five distinct planes—or shards—each focused on a limited color identity. This specific Plains was created to illustrate the landscape of Bant, a shard characterized by its serene, orderly society and white-aligned mana, emphasizing a setting of abundance and idealized medieval tranquility.
The artwork was commissioned from Michael Komarck, a well-regarded digital illustrator known for his dramatic lighting and atmospheric world-building. Komarck was tasked with grounding the Bant landscape in a sense of epic grandeur, utilizing expansive skies and architectural markers to evoke the shard’s signature knightly aesthetic. Upon its release, the card was well-received by the player base for its clean, painterly style, becoming a common yet iconic representation of the Bant landscape during the set's standard-legal run.
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