Printings
Lake of the Dead
Card Information
Type: Land
CMC: 0
Part of the Reserved List: Yes
Color Identity: 
Set: Alliances (ALL)
Rarity: Rare
Collector Number: 140
Oracle Text
If this land would enter, sacrifice a Swamp instead. If you do, put this land onto the battlefield. If you don't, put it into its owner's graveyard. {T}: Add {B}. {T}, Sacrifice a Swamp: Add {B}{B}{B}{B}.
Format Legalities
Card Rulings
- October 4, 2004
You have to sacrifice a swamp before this card is put onto the battlefield. And you have to do this no matter how it is put onto the battlefield.
Source: wotc - October 4, 2004
The tap and sacrifice counts as tapping the land for mana.
Source: wotc
Price History
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