Arid Archway

Land — Desert

Arid Archway enters the battlefield tapped.

When Arid Archway enters the battlefield, return a land you control to its owner's hand. If another Desert was returned this way, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card into your graveyard.)

{T}: Add {C}{C}.

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Alchemy	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Arena	Legal
Block Constructed	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Freeform	Legal
Gladiator	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Historic	Legal
Historic Brawl	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Modern	Legal
Modern Beyond Horizons	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Pioneer	Legal
Planar Constructed	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Pre-release	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Standard	Legal
Standard Brawl	Legal
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (9)

Idoneity on Lost Among the Stars in Search of the Moon

1 month ago

Oh yeah. Easy +1. Given your prerogative, I highly recommend Arid Archway and Surveyor's Scope.

TijuanaBachelorParty on Tomik 43 Lands.dec

9 months ago

SufferFromEDHD Very cool deck! +1

Lotus Field and Lotus Vale can keep you deficient in land while providing colored mana and allowing you to continue ramping. Additionally, Arid Archway and Guildless Commons are similar and are great card advantage. All of these also work quite well with Deserted Temple.

Have you had a chance to play with Endless Horizons? I am curious to hear your experience with the card.

lil_cheez on Keeping Up With the Joneses

1 year ago

Y'all know what I mean, and y'all know how it goes!!

Bouncelands (Karoo, Guildless Commons, Arid Archway) and Lotus lands (Lotus Vale, Lotus Field) keep your land count low so you can catch up!

hybridv21 on Deaf

1 year ago

more lands 36-39, ditch the temple of the false gods, Everglades is risky as it needs an untapped swamp, maybe try Arid Archway.

Wayfarer's Bauble is great ramp when you don't have green.

my main concern for the build in general is there is a LOT of big mana costs, not a lot of ramp, and lots of reanimation spells without early cards to fill the graveyard, meaning that the cards you bring back are ones you've already played and lost, not the end of the world, but still means they're creatures coming in later, rather than creatures you're getting sooner and cheaper, by milling them or entombing them early, to get back cheap with the reanimation spells.

to put it simply, consider adding ways to put your own cards in the graveyard with early mill or discard effects, so reanimation happens sooner, and get some more ramp incase you have to play these cards at full price.

other than that there is some really amazing black enchantments here, and you could check out enchantment support in black to see if there is any extra synergy or value you could get off of playing so many enchantments.

multimedia on Brew my deck for me

1 year ago

Consider High Tide for ramp and/or with spells that can untap your Islands Turnabout, Frantic Search, Snap? Just Tide + Turnabout + you control 4 Islands could give you 10 mana turn 4. Mystic Sanctuary is a fantasic land that's an Island. Castle Vantress isn't an Island, but it's a good land for instant repeatable scry.

Consider Thought Vessel and/or Decanter of Endless Water? Mana rocks for ramp that can also potentially give you no max hand size before you control Nezahal. Reliquary Tower is a land for no max hand size.

Consider Forensic Researcher, Kelpie Guide, etc.? They can untap a land or a land that can make more than 1 mana Arid Archway, Guildless Commons even the same turn the land ETB. They can also untap a mana rock or even better a mana rock that can make more than 1 mana Sol Ring, Worn Powerstone, Palladium Myr, Thran Dynamo, Hedron Archive, Gilded Lotus, etc. They can also untap Nezahal to be a blocker.

A spell advantage blue has are instants that let you look at top X cards of your library and put one or more of any of them into our hand (any card(s) into hand is the advantage). Consider Impulse, Memory Deluge, Dig Through Time, Supreme Will, Thassa's Intervention, etc.? When you're casting instants on opponents' turns then Wavebreak Hippocamp is repeatable card draw. Being a 3 drop you can more safely play it and leave up mana for instant opponent interaction.

Lionheart0115 on wolverine

1 year ago

Here's some tips to improve your deck. Id tone down your lands from 47 to 38-40 lands. Maybe add some bounce lands like Gruul Turf, Guildless Commons, Arid Archway fetch lands like Evolving Wilds, Terramorphic Expanse, Myriad Landscape, Mountain Valley, Wooded Foothills Prismatic Vista Ect. Theres's way more, but I aint gonna list them all off. That way you'll have more ways to trigger your landfall and in the case of fetch lands, thin your deck out.

Some random cards id look into possibly adding would be Fight Rigging, Bear Umbra Mutant's Prey, Ancient Animus, Pounce, Prey Upon, Pit Fight Boxing Ring Rancor, Alpha Authority, Sticky Fingers, Fireshrieker, Whispersilk Cloak ect

Most of my recommendations either give you access to -fighting (Which would trigger Wolverines +1/+1 counter trigger even when if its not your turn. That way you wouldnt have to rely on someone attacking you and blocking) -Double strike (Since Wolverine doubles damage without saying "Double Strike", He would go from a 2/2 that doubles damage so 4/2 effectively. To a 2/2 that attacks twice and doubles damage, so effectively an 8/2) -Protection (You want him to be really hard to kill even though he has regeneration, plenty of removal still has "This creature cant be regenerated" slapped at the end of it. So Aura's that make Wolverine either even harder to target or respond to before he mops the floor with your opponents the better.

StarRushford on Zimone, Mytery unraveler

1 year ago

Probably more bounce lands. Arid Archway Coral Atoll Guildless Commons Jungle Basin are the ones you could run.

Also, Avenger of Zendikar, Druid Class, Khalni Heart Expedition, and maybe Zendikar Resurgent. Engulf the Shore for a boardwipe. Fecund Greenshell is a good buff card in a Landfall deck. Life and Limb Natural Affinity and Rude Awakening can be close a game.

DatShepTho on Gitrog landfall in construction

1 year ago

Some land suggestions: Combos with Kodama + Scute: Arid Archway, Golgari Rot Farm, Guildless Commons

Two mana sac: Ebon Stronghold, Havenwood Battleground

Cycling: Barren Moor, Tranquil Thicket, Polluted Mire, Slippery Karst, Desert of the Glorified, Desert of the Indomitable

Fetch: Evolving Wilds, Terramorphic Expanse, Fabled Passage, Myriad Landscape, Blighted Woodland, Riveteers Overlook

Other: Ghost Quarter, Lotus Field, Nurturing Peatland, Bojuka Bog, Emergence Zone, Field of the Dead