Gruul Turf
Asked by InnerFlame 11 years ago
Can I play Gruul Turf if I have no other lands on the battlefield?
Yes you can, but you'll have to bounce it back to your hand.
It's just a waste of a land drop
April 3, 2014 10:17 a.m.
@HostOfSmallPox That's not correct. It isn't part of the casting cost at all, it's a trigger that happens when it enters the battlefield.
You can absolutely play Gruul Turf with no other lands in play, but when the trigger resolves and you have to return a land to your hand, your only choice will be the Gruul Turf
April 3, 2014 10:18 a.m.
The_Dragonmaster says... #5
Oh yeah I forgot, it is a land so you will have to bounce it back
April 3, 2014 10:18 a.m.
@Sam_I_am it's not a waste of a land drop if you have an Amulet of Vigor which would allow you to untap it, and tap it for 2 mana before the bounce resolved.
April 3, 2014 10:21 a.m.
@Devonin if we want to get nitpicky like that, it still is a waste of a land drop even if you have Amulet of Vigor ... if there's also a Torpor Orb on the field
April 3, 2014 10:27 a.m.
Gruul Turf isn't a creature, and unaffected by the Torpor Orb :P
April 3, 2014 10:27 a.m.
It's not nitpicky at the moment, since Bloom TItan is a Modern Combo deck seeing top8 play right now, that uses the interaction between Amulet of Vigor , the Karoo lands like Gruul Turf , and extra land drop effects like Azusa, Lost but Seeking .
April 3, 2014 10:30 a.m.
InnerFlame says... #10
Well I couldn't play any of those things without a land anyways lol
April 3, 2014 10:32 a.m.
@Devonin March of the Machines and Mycosynth Lattice too.
April 3, 2014 10:33 a.m.
Maybe you played a land and the amulet, and then they played Wasteland and killed your land. Now you have no land and the amulet. At least you could play a 2-drop with the Turf even if you bounced it :P
April 3, 2014 10:34 a.m.
Rhadamanthus says... #13
Maybe if we talk about enough cards not in the original question we can confuse everybody.
Oh, wait... =P
The_Dragonmaster says... #1
No. You need at least one other land in play. It may not say it, but it is part of the casting cost.
April 3, 2014 10:16 a.m.