Scalding Tarn
Special Guests 117 • mythic
- Set
- Special Guests
- Collector number
- 117
- Rarity
- Mythic
- Type
- Land
- Colors
- Colorless
- Artist
- Marco Gorlei
- Finish
- Foil
- Market price
- $451.08
What it does
tap, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for an Island or Mountain card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperNot legal
- BrawlLegal
- HistoricBanned
- TimelessLegal
- Penny DreadfulNot legal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Scalding Tarn is a seminal land card first introduced in the 2009 Magic: The Gathering set Zendikar, designed to facilitate efficient deck thinning and color fixing by allowing players to sacrifice the card to search for specific land types. The card quickly became a foundational element in competitive formats like Modern and Legacy, as its ability to fetch either Island or Mountain variants provided unparalleled consistency for control and combo strategies.
The Special Guests version, numbered 117, serves as a premium aesthetic iteration of this utility staple, featuring reimagined artwork that leans into the high-fantasy, evocative style associated with the series' modern showcase treatments. These releases are curated to highlight iconic mechanical designs through distinct visual lenses, often created by guest illustrators tasked with translating classic mechanics into the current, highly stylized artistic direction of the game.
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