Shadowy Backstreet (Borderless) – MTG Proxy Murders at Karlov

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Shadowy Backstreet

Mana value: 0 · Color identity: White, Black

Land — Plains Swamp

(Tap: Add White mana or Black mana.)
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)
Card format legality
Commander
Legal
Modern
Legal
Pioneer
Legal
Standard
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Pauper
Not legal

Format status describes the underlying Magic card, not eligibility of this printed product for sanctioned play.

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Card rulings

No official card-specific rulings are listed.

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Shadowy Backstreet combines white-black mana with a small amount of card selection when it enters. The land always enters tapped, then its surveil trigger lets you inspect the top card of the library and either keep it there or put it into the graveyard. That can improve the next draw while helping a graveyard strategy stock useful resources.

Its Plains Swamp types make it accessible through appropriate fetch lands, including Marsh Flats. Finding it before your next untap can make the tapped entry easier to accommodate while still giving you the surveil decision. A card placed in the graveyard may become useful through recursion, but only put it there when the deck has a reason to prefer that destination over drawing it.

For aristocrats and reanimation strategies, the practical benefit is choosing between spells such as Swords to Plowshares and Animate Dead as the turn develops. White token production and protection complement black sacrifice outlets and recursion. Blood Artist rewards creature deaths, while a reanimation spell can recover an important creature after an exchange, provided the mana base still supplies the required black. A flexible source supports those decisions without requiring a separate fixing artifact to stay on the battlefield.

Unlike Godless Shrine, this land offers no life-payment option to enter untapped. It remains nonbasic despite its types, so searches restricted to basic land cards cannot find it. Surveil is selection rather than drawing an extra card. Include it when a manageable tempo cost buys useful fixing and control over the next draw, rather than filling the opening hand with too many tapped sources.

Weight 0.0125 lbs
Dimensions 0.0 × 0.0 × 0.0 in
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