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Matzalantli, the Great Door // The Core
Type line
Legendary Artifact // Legendary Land
Oracle text
Matzalantli, the Great Door : Draw a card, then discard a card. , : 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.) The Core (Transforms from Matzalantli.) Fathomless descent — : Add X mana of any one color, where X is the number of permanent cards in your graveyard.
Rulings
- Cards with the ability word "fathomless descent" have abilities that care how many permanent cards are in your graveyard.2023-11-10
- The Core's activated ability is a mana ability. It doesn't use the stack and can't be responded to.2023-11-10
- Transforming Matzalantli doesn't cause it to leave the battlefield. It also doesn't cause it to become untapped.2023-11-10
- 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.2023-11-10
Market price
$2.13
Commanders that play this card
Use over time
1 public deck with Matzalantli, the Great Door // The Core saved in the last 12 weeks, by the week each was last saved. Approximate: a deck counts in the week it was saved, not every week it held the card.
Often played with
Across the 1 public deck that plays Matzalantli, the Great Door // The Core. That's a thin sample — treat these as observations, not staples.