Lake of the Dead
- Type
- Land
- Set
- Magic Online Promos #23954 (rare)
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}.
Lake of the Dead has 5 printings, first in Alliances (1996). EDHREC ranks it #5,291 among Commander cards. It appears most in K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth decks (4,273 on EDHREC). It has 2 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: not legal
- pioneer: not legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: not legal
Commanders that run Lake of the Dead most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth: 4,273 decks
- Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel: 1,729 decks
- The Gitrog Monster: 1,632 decks
- Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern: 1,280 decks
- Yawgmoth, Thran Physician: 979 decks
- Sheoldred, the Apocalypse: 905 decks
- Gwenom, Remorseless: 587 decks
- Maralen of the Mornsong: 446 decks
Often played with Lake of the Dead
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : 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.
- : The tap and sacrifice counts as tapping the land for mana.