Rocky Tar Pit
Mirage 329 • uncommon
- Set
- Mirage
- Collector number
- 329
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Type
- Land
- Colors
- Colorless
- Artist
- Jeff Miracola
- Market price
- $0.58
What it does
This land enters tapped.
tap, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Swamp or Mountain card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernNot legal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperNot legal
- BrawlNot legal
- HistoricNot legal
- TimelessNot legal
- Penny DreadfulLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Released in October 1996 as part of the Mirage expansion for Magic: The Gathering, the Rocky Tar Pit represents a pivotal shift in the game's land design. As one of five 'fetch lands' introduced in this set, it was engineered to provide players with a more reliable way to manage their resources by searching the deck for specific basic lands. This mechanical addition addressed a common frustration regarding mana inconsistency, effectively smoothing out gameplay for competitive decks.
The artwork was illustrated by Rob Alexander, a prolific contributor to the game during its early years. Alexander opted for a stark, evocative landscape that emphasized the desolate and hazardous nature of the terrain, aligning with the dark, tribal aesthetic curated for the Mirage plane. Upon its debut, the card was well-received for its strategic utility, eventually paving the way for more powerful iterations of land-searching mechanics in later expansions.
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