Bristling Backwoods

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Bristling Backwoods is a Gruul dual-color Desert land that enters tapped, fixes mana between R and G, and pings one opponent for 1 damage on ETB. The enters-tapped drawback makes it suboptimal in faster shells, but the free damage is relevant in dedicated burn/ping-land strategies (e.g., Valakut-style or damage-from-lands builds). In Commander it's largely a budget dual with minimal upside at 40 life; it fits modestly in lower-bracket mana bases and lands-matter decks that care about Desert subtype or ETB triggers.

• Bristling Backwoods has the Desert subtype, which is relevant for Desert-synergy cards like Conduit of Worlds, Arid Archway, and Geothermal Bog; this is a non-obvious upside beyond the ping.

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• In multiplayer Commander the ETB ping is strictly single-target (one opponent), so it doesn't scale with table size the way 'each opponent' effects do — 1 damage at 40 life is mostly negligible unless you're in a dedicated lands-damage deck.

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• EDHREC rank: #3,191