Spawning Pool
Tenth Edition 358 • uncommon
- Set
- Tenth Edition
- Collector number
- 358
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Type
- Land
- Colors
- Colorless
- Artist
- Nils Hamm
- Market price
- $0.39
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
Spawning Pool was originally introduced in the Stronghold expansion set of Magic: The Gathering in 1998, designed to represent the Phyrexian biological machinery that birthed their terrifying forces. The card functioned as a land that could animate into a creature, a utility design intended to provide players with late-game options when drawing mana sources became less impactful. The Tenth Edition printing, released in 2007, marked a return to the core set for this card, utilizing the modern card frame that had become the standard following the Eighth Edition design overhaul.
The artwork for this version retains the original haunting aesthetic created by artist Greg Staples. His illustration depicts the viscous, organic landscape of a Phyrexian nursery, emphasizing themes of body horror and industrial decay. Tenth Edition was the final core set to feature a white-bordered design, and while Spawning Pool remained a functional staple for players utilizing black mana in Limited environments, it is primarily regarded today as a classic example of early tactical land design within the long-running Phyrexian narrative arc.
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