Swamp
Portal Second Age 157 • common
- Set
- Portal Second Age
- Collector number
- 157
- Rarity
- Common
- Type
- Land
- Colors
- Colorless
- Artist
- Susan Van Camp
- Market price
- $1.51
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
Released in 1998, the Portal Second Age set was designed by Wizards of the Coast as an introductory product to simplify the complex rules of Magic: The Gathering for new players. The set featured a distinct aesthetic that leaned heavily into high fantasy tropes, moving away from the more abstract or dark themes seen in earlier core sets. This Swamp card, illustrated by Susan Van Camp, exemplifies the set's approachable visual style, utilizing a cleaner, more readable art direction intended to help novices immediately identify the card type during gameplay.
Susan Van Camp’s contribution to the set remains notable for its lush, traditional fantasy landscape, which contrasts with the more stylized or experimental art directions found in modern Magic sets. While Portal Second Age was initially received with mixed reactions by veteran players due to its simplified ruleset and non-tournament-legal status at the time of release, its basic land art has since gained appreciation among collectors for its nostalgic value and the specific era of artistic talent it captures from the late 1990s.
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