, , Sacrifice this land: Return target artifact card from your graveyard to your hand.
Buried Ruin is one of the best colorless utility lands available, and it's nearly free to include in any artifact-leaning deck. The colorless mana is a real cost, but the recursion is so cheap and relevant that it justifies the slot in most builds.
Where it shines:
- Artifact decks of all stripes — combo pieces, mana rocks, Sol Ring, key equipment. Getting back a bounced or sacrificed Sword or combo artifact for 2 mana is excellent value.
- Aristocrats/sacrifice shells running artifact fodder, or decks that crack artifacts repeatedly.
- Colorless and mono-color commanders (Karn, Traxos, Eldrazi) where it slots in seamlessly.
When to skip it:
- Heavily three-or-more-color decks where color fixing matters more than the colorless source — the tap-for- drawback hurts your manabase.
- Decks light on impactful artifacts; if you're only recurring a Mind Stone, it's not worth the colorless land.
Cheap insurance against artifact removal, and a great rate when you have real targets.