Artifact land

Artifact land is a term used in reference to the six common land cards printed in Mirrodin and Darksteel and the ten common taplands printed in Modern Horizons 2 that also have the artifact type.

List of artifact lands

 * Mirrodin
 * Ancient Den
 * Seat of the Synod
 * Vault of Whispers
 * Great Furnace
 * Tree of Tales


 * Darksteel
 * Darksteel Citadel is also indestructible.


 * Modern Horizons 2
 * first non-creature artifact with Modular.

Bridges:
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History
The artifact lands heavily contributed to the dominance of the affinity-based deck archetypes, and thus, in March 2005, all six were banned from Standard (Darksteel Citadel, however, was later reprinted in Magic 2015, and the ban did not carry over with the reprint.) In the Modern format, all but Darksteel Citadel were banned from the beginning.

Due to the high amount of artifact synergy in Modern Horizons 2 almost twenty years later, R&D decided to try out a cycle of dual artifact lands for color fixing and as a resource in other synergistic ways. Because the set included a higher-than-normal count of artifact-targeting removal, it was decided to make them indestructible. The cards depict pre-Phyrexian Mirrodin.

Rules
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Trivia

 * The location depicted in each artifact land was also featured in the art of the appropriate card from Scars of Mirrodin.
 * The artwork of each colored artifact land from the Mirrodin cycle was copied on a basic land from New Phyrexia, representing darker versions of the original.
 * Ancient Den matches
 * Seat of the Synod matches
 * Vault of Whispers</c> matches
 * Great Furnace</c> matches
 * Tree of Tales</c> matches