Steam Vents
Star Trek 493 • rare
- Set
- Star Trek
- Collector number
- 493
- Rarity
- Rare
- Type
- Land
- Colors
- Colorless
- Artist
- Chad Weatherford
- Finish
- Surge
What it does
(tap: Add blue mana or red mana.)
As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.
Where you can play it
- StandardLegal
- PioneerLegal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperNot legal
- BrawlLegal
- HistoricLegal
- TimelessLegal
- Penny DreadfulNot legal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Steam Vents first appeared in the 2005 Ravnica: City of Guilds expansion for Magic: The Gathering, serving as a dual-land designed to represent the Izzet League. The card was mechanically crafted to provide players with flexible mana options by allowing the choice of paying two life to enter the battlefield untapped, a design space intended to balance efficiency with a self-inflicted resource penalty.
The artwork was commissioned from illustrator Chad Weatherford, who captured the industrial, volatile aesthetic of the Izzet guild's Ravnican architecture. The card has since seen multiple reprints across various core sets and specialty products, remaining a staple in eternal formats for its ability to produce both blue and red mana while maintaining the fetchable land subtype.
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