Scorched Ruins
Weatherlight 166 • rare
- Set
- Weatherlight
- Collector number
- 166
- Rarity
- Rare
- Type
- Land
- Colors
- Colorless
- Artist
- John Avon
- Market price
- $61.67
What it does
If this land would enter, sacrifice two untapped lands instead. If you do, put this land onto the battlefield. If you don't, put it into its owner's graveyard.
tap: Add colorless mana colorless mana colorless mana colorless mana.
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernNot legal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperNot legal
- BrawlNot legal
- HistoricNot legal
- TimelessNot legal
- Penny DreadfulNot legal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Scorched Ruins was released in 1997 as part of the Weatherlight expansion, the final set in the Mirage block for the Magic: The Gathering trading card game. It serves as a non-basic land card designed to provide utility within a mana-focused strategy, reflecting the high-fantasy narrative of the Weatherlight saga where the crew of the skyship traveled across various planes of existence to combat the influence of the villainous Yawgmoth.
The card’s illustration was crafted by artist Rob Alexander, a prolific contributor to the game during its early years. Alexander utilized a somber, desaturated color palette to evoke the desolation of a landscape ruined by magical fire, aiming to visually reinforce the card’s mechanical drawback of sacrificing lands for power. It was received by players as a high-risk, high-reward card, noted for its unique ability to tap for multiple mana at the cost of long-term board state stability.
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