Arid Archway

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Arid Archway is a tapped Desert land producing {C}{C} that bounces one of your lands on entry — enabling landfall re-triggers — and surveys 1 if the bounced land was also a Desert. It's a niche lands-matter / graveyard-filler inclusion, most at home in Desert-tribal, landfall, or surveil-based self-mill shells. The enter-tapped + bounce cost makes it actively harmful in fast or tempo strategies.

• Arid Archway only produces colorless mana ({C}{C}), making it effectively off-color in any deck that needs colored pips — the surveil 1 bonus rarely justifies the slot in non-Desert, non-landfall builds.

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• The bounce-a-land ETB is a cost, not a benefit in most decks, but in landfall shells it can be exploited to replay a landfall-trigger land repeatedly.

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• The surveil 1 bonus requires the returned land to be a Desert specifically, so in mixed land-bases the conditional payoff will often not trigger.

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• EDHREC rank: #1,441