Swamp
Innistrad 256 • common
- Set
- Innistrad
- Collector number
- 256
- Rarity
- Common
- Type
- Land
- Colors
- Colorless
- Artist
- James Paick
- Market price
- $0.18
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
This Swamp card was released as part of the Innistrad expansion for Magic: The Gathering in 2011. The set was designed to evoke a gothic horror atmosphere, drawing inspiration from classic tropes like vampires, werewolves, and grave-dwelling necromancy. As a basic land, its primary function is to provide the mana necessary for black-aligned spells, grounded in the dark, oppressive aesthetic that defines the plane of Innistrad.
The artwork for this specific card, numbered 256, was created by the artist Jung Park. Park utilized a moody, muted color palette to capture the stagnant and foreboding nature of the Innistrad marshlands. The illustration focuses on skeletal tree limbs and thick, encroaching fog, which successfully reinforced the set's immersive world-building and became a favored example of the expansion's unified visual storytelling.
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