Swamp
Odyssey 342 • common
- Set
- Odyssey
- Collector number
- 342
- Rarity
- Common
- Type
- Land
- Colors
- Colorless
- Artist
- Alan Pollack
- Market price
- $0.68
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 October 2001, the Odyssey set marked the beginning of a new storyline for Magic: The Gathering, centered on the Otarian continent and the aftermath of the Phyrexian Invasion. As a basic land, this Swamp was designed to provide the foundational resource of black mana, serving as a functional cornerstone for the set's graveyard-focused mechanics like flashback and threshold, which encouraged players to manage their resources between the battlefield and the discard pile.
The art was rendered by Alan Pollack, a prolific illustrator known for his contributions to the game during the late 1990s and early 2000s. Pollack utilized a moody, atmospheric aesthetic to evoke the desolate and overgrown feel of the Odyssey environment. His depiction of the landscape emphasizes deep shadows and twisted, skeletal vegetation, successfully grounding the card in the gothic, swampy visual language that defines the color black in the game’s color pie.
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