Swamp
Shards of Alara 238 • common
- Set
- Shards of Alara
- Collector number
- 238
- Rarity
- Common
- Type
- Land
- Colors
- Colorless
- Artist
- Chippy
- Market price
- $0.54
What it does
(tap: Add black mana.)
Where you can play it
- StandardLegal
- PioneerLegal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperLegal
- BrawlLegal
- HistoricLegal
- TimelessLegal
- Penny DreadfulLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
The Swamp card from the Shards of Alara set, released in 2008, serves as a fundamental resource card within the Magic: The Gathering trading card game. The set is notable for its 'shards' theme, which explores a world split into five distinct planes, each defined by a specific set of three allied colors. This particular Swamp represents the desolate, necrotic landscape of Grixis, a plane characterized by a desperate struggle for life energy, reflecting the set's high-fantasy world-building narrative.
The illustration for this iteration was created by artist John Avon, a prolific figure in the game's history known for his sweeping, atmospheric landscapes. Avon’s design for this card utilizes his signature ethereal lighting and grand scale to emphasize the bleak, swampy terrain of the Grixis shard. It was received by the player community as a quintessential example of his work, valued for its ability to convey the moody, dark identity of the plane while maintaining the functional clarity required for a basic land card.
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