Matzalantli, the Great Door // The Core
- Type
- Legendary Artifact // Legendary Land
- Set
- The Lost Caverns of Ixalan #256 (rare)
- Price
- $2.23 USD
Matzalantli, the Great Door
{T}: Draw a card, then discard a card.
{4}, {T}: Transform Matzalantli. Activate only if there are four or more permanent types among cards in your graveyard. (Artifact, battle, creature, enchantment, land, and planeswalker are permanent types.)
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The Core
(Transforms from Matzalantli.)
Fathomless descent — {T}: Add X mana of any one color, where X is the number of permanent cards in your graveyard.
Matzalantli, the Great Door // The Core has 2 printings, first in The Lost Caverns of Ixalan (2023). EDHREC ranks it #1,845 among Commander cards. It has 4 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: legal
- standard: legal
- brawl: legal
Often played with Matzalantli, the Great Door // The Core
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
- Oteclan Landmark
- Spring-Loaded Sawblades
- Clay-Fired Bricks
- Master's Guide-Mural
- Inverted Iceberg
- Idol of the Deep King
- Eye of Ojer Taq
- Braided Net
- Waterlogged Hulk
- Dire Flail
Rulings
- : Cards with the ability word "fathomless descent" have abilities that care how many permanent cards are in your graveyard.
- : The Core's activated ability is a mana ability. It doesn't use the stack and can't be responded to.
- : Transforming Matzalantli doesn't cause it to leave the battlefield. It also doesn't cause it to become untapped.
- : Some descend triggered abilities include intervening "if" clauses (i.e. "if you have [four or eight] permanent cards in your graveyard" in the middle of the ability). Each of these abilities checks your graveyard at the moment it would trigger to see if it does. If you don't have the required number of permanent cards in your graveyard at that time, the ability doesn't trigger at all. If it does trigger, it will check again as it tries to resolve. If you don't have the required number of permanent cards in your graveyard at that time, the ability won't resolve and none of its effects will happen.