Underground Sea – MTG Proxy Beta

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Underground Sea

Mana value: 0 · Color identity: Blue, Black

Land — Island Swamp

(Tap: Add Blue mana or Black mana.)
Card format legality
Commander
Legal
Modern
Not legal
Pioneer
Not legal
Standard
Not 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 2
  1. This has the mana abilities associated with both of its basic land types.
  2. This has basic land types, but it isn't a basic land. Things that affect basic lands don't affect it. Things that affect basic land types do.

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Underground Sea supplies blue-black mana from a land with the Island Swamp types. It has no built-in tapped-entry condition or life payment, making it useful when early colored spells need to be cast without delay. Its combination of immediate access and searchable types supports both two-color decks and wider mana bases built around fetch lands.

Polluted Delta can find Underground Sea, giving the fetch a target that does not require a shock-land payment to arrive untapped. Other searches can find it whenever one of its land types matches their instructions. Compared with Watery Grave, it fills a similar color-fixing role while avoiding that land’s choice between two life and a tapped entry.

For control and reanimation strategies, the practical benefit is choosing between spells such as Entomb and Counterspell as the turn develops. Black setup spells can prepare a graveyard while blue interaction protects the eventual payoff. Reanimate and Animate Dead benefit from a mana base that can establish black early without cutting off later blue responses. A flexible source supports those decisions without requiring a separate fixing artifact to stay on the battlefield.

The land still produces only one mana per activation, even though it has two basic land types. It is also nonbasic, so Fabled Passage and other basic-only searches cannot find it. Keep actual basics where the deck’s ramp or resilience calls for them, and count colored sources carefully when several spells require repeated symbols of the same color.

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