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Foreboding Ruins

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Card details
Artist
Stephen Stark
Frame
2015
Language
EN
Border
black
Security stamp
triangle
Format legality
AlchemyNot legal
BrawlLegal
CommanderLegal
DuelLegal
Future StandardNot legal
GladiatorLegal
HistoricLegal
LegacyLegal
ModernLegal
OathbreakerLegal
Old SchoolNot legal
PauperNot legal
Pauper CommanderNot legal
PennyLegal
PioneerLegal
PreDHNot legal
PremodernNot legal
StandardNot legal
Standard BrawlNot legal
TimelessLegal
Tiny LeadersLegal
VintageLegal
Oracle text

Land

As this land enters, you may reveal a Swamp or Mountain card from your hand. If you don't, this land enters tapped.

{T}: Add {B} or {R}.

Abilities
StaticAs this land enters, you may reveal a Swamp or Mountain card from your hand. If you don't, this land enters tapped.
Activated{T}: Add {B} or {R}.
Plays as
Mana FixerReveal Land
Flavor & art
"I love old things. They make me feel sad." —Sally Sparrow
Illustrated by
Stephen Stark
Rulings
  • WotCApr 8, 2016

    If a Swamp or Mountain is entering the battlefield from your hand at the same time as Foreboding Ruins, you may reveal the other land to have Foreboding Ruins enter untapped.

  • WotCApr 8, 2016

    If an effect instructs you to put Foreboding Ruins onto the battlefield tapped, it will still enter the battlefield tapped even if you reveal a land card from your hand.

  • WotCApr 8, 2016

    Lands don't have a subtype just because they can produce mana of the corresponding color. Foreboding Ruins itself is neither a Swamp nor a Mountain, even though it produces black and red mana, so you can't reveal one to satisfy the ability of another.

  • WotCApr 8, 2016

    You may reveal any land card with either or both of the appropriate subtypes. It doesn't have to be a basic land. For example, you could reveal Sunken Hollow from the Battle for Zendikar set to satisfy the ability of Foreboding Ruins.