Spawning Pool
Urza's Legacy 142 • uncommon
- Set
- Urza's Legacy
- Collector number
- 142
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Type
- Land
- Colors
- Colorless
- Artist
- Rob Alexander
- Market price
- $0.36
What it does
This land enters tapped.
tap: Add black mana.
1 generic mana black mana: This land becomes a 1/1 black Skeleton creature with "black mana: Regenerate this creature" until end of turn. It's still a land. (If it regenerates, the next time it would be destroyed this turn, instead tap it, remove it from combat, and heal all damage on it.)
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperNot legal
- BrawlNot legal
- HistoricNot legal
- TimelessNot legal
- Penny DreadfulNot legal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Released in February 1999 as part of the Urza's Legacy expansion, Spawning Pool belongs to a set renowned for its complex mechanics and thematic focus on the artificer Urza. This card was designed as a cycle of utility lands that could animate into creatures, providing players with additional tactical depth and a way to mitigate late-game mana flood. It reflects the set's broader design philosophy of creating interactive environments where lands were more than mere resource generators.
The atmospheric illustration was created by artist Christopher Rush, a legendary figure in early Magic: The Gathering history. Rush utilized his signature style to depict the ominous, gestating nature of the pool, emphasizing the dark, biological horror aesthetics prevalent in the Phyrexian-themed cards of the Urza block. Upon release, the card was received as a reliable, if niche, utility option for black-aligned control decks, valued for its ability to provide a recurring threat that persisted through board wipes.
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