Sunken Hollow
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Sunken Hollow

Land — Island Swamp

LegalEDHREC #86

({T}: Add {U} or {B}.)

This land enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.

Why is this card good?

Sunken Hollow is a battlefield dual that fixes UB while still counting as both an Island and a Swamp — which matters for fetchlands, Urborg, and any "basic land type" synergies. The catch is the conditional tapped clause: it enters untapped only if you already control two or more basics. That makes it best in decks running a healthy basic-land count, which is most two-color UB lists in the early-to-mid game. It's a clean, cheap inclusion for control, reanimator, mill, and aristocrats decks that want reliable colored mana without paying life like a shock or fast land. The downside is real, though: in greedy three-plus-color manabases or low-basic decks (heavy on fetches, shocks, and nonbasics), it frequently enters tapped, making it strictly worse than a typed dual or pain land. Play it in dedicated UB decks with enough basics; cut it from light-basic, high-tempo, or competitive manabases where the tapped land is a liability.

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Rulings (3)

  • 2015-08-25

    Even though these lands have basic land types, they are not basic lands because "basic" doesn't appear on their type line. Notably, controlling two or more of them won't allow others to enter the battlefield untapped.

  • 2015-08-25

    However, because these cards have basic land types, effects that specify a basic land type without also specifying that the land be basic can affect them. For example, a spell or ability that reads "Destroy target Forest" can target Canopy Vista, while one that reads "Destroy target basic Forest" cannot.

  • 2015-08-25

    If one of these lands enters the battlefield at the same time as any number of basic lands, those other lands are not counted when determining if this land enters the battlefield tapped or untapped.

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