Swamp
Fifth Edition 438 • common
- Set
- Fifth Edition
- Collector number
- 438
- Rarity
- Common
- Type
- Land
- Colors
- Colorless
- Artist
- Andrew Robinson
- Market price
- $0.56
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 Magic: The Gathering Fifth Edition set, released in 1997, represents a transitional era in the game's aesthetic history. As a core set intended to consolidate rules and provide a comprehensive entry point for players, Fifth Edition featured a mix of art commissioned specifically for the expansion alongside pieces repurposed from earlier sets to maintain a consistent visual identity for the game's basic lands.
This specific illustration follows the established tradition of early Magic landscape art, focusing on the atmospheric and brooding qualities associated with the Black mana color identity. While the artists for the basic lands in this era were often selected to provide a diverse range of interpretations of the five core biomes, the Fifth Edition swamps were received by the community as a nostalgic anchor, reinforcing the foundational gameplay experience that defined the mid-nineties card pool.
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