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Exotic Orchard
Land
rare
: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.
Semantic Tags
Grants one or more additional turns. A powerful tempo and inevitability effect in any strategy.
Effects that double or multiply mana production.
Helps produce colors you need. Includes multicolor lands, color filtering, and 'any color' mana sources.
Helps produce colors you need. Includes multicolor lands, color filtering, and 'any color' mana sources.
A permanent with a repeatable activated ability that converts excess mana into value.
A permanent with a repeatable activated ability that converts excess mana into value.
A card or token on the battlefield. See rule 110, “Permanents.”
Format Legality
Price history
Printings (54)
| Set | Rarity | TCGplayer | Card Kingdom | Cardmarket |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mystery Booster Commander Edition#79 | rare | · | · | · |
| Marvel Super Heroes Commander#470 | rare | · | · | · |
| Marvel Super Heroes Commander#241 | rare | · | · | · |
| Secrets of Strixhaven Commander#369 | rare | · | · | · |
| Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Eternal#66 | rare | · | · | · |
| Lorwyn Eclipsed Commander#148 | rare | · | · | · |
| Edge of Eternities Commander#159 | rare | · | · | · |
| Final Fantasy Commander#390 | rare | · | · | · |
| The List#OTC-293 | rare | · | · | · |
| Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander#360 | rare | · | · | · |
| Aetherdrift Commander#155 | rare | · | · | · |
| The List#CMM-993 | rare | · | · | · |
| Duskmourn: House of Horror Commander#275 | rare | · | · | · |
| Bloomburrow Commander#131 | rare | · | · | · |
| Modern Horizons 3 Commander#341 | rare | · | · | · |
| Outlaws of Thunder Junction Commander#293 | rare | · | · | · |
| Fallout#264 | rare | · | · | · |
| Fallout#495 | rare | · | · | · |
| Fallout#792 | rare | · | · | · |
| Fallout#1023 | rare | · | · | · |
Related Rules
If an ability would produce one or more mana of an undefined type, it produces no mana instead.
Some abilities produce mana based on the type of mana another permanent or permanents “could produce.” The type of mana a permanent could produce at any time includes any type of mana that an ability of that permanent would produce if the ability were to resolve at that time, taking into account any applicable replacement effects in any possible order. Ignore whether any costs of the ability could or could not be paid. If that permanent wouldn’t produce any mana under these conditions, or no type of mana can be defined this way, there’s no type of mana it could produce.
To “tap [a permanent] for mana” is to activate a mana ability of that permanent that includes the {T} symbol in its activation cost. See rule 605, “Mana Abilities.”
An ability that triggers whenever a permanent “is tapped for mana” or is tapped for mana of a specified type triggers whenever such a mana ability resolves and produces mana or the specified type of mana.
A replacement effect that applies if a permanent “is tapped for mana” or tapped for mana of a specific type and/or amount modifies the mana production event while such an ability is resolving and producing mana or the specified type and/or amount of mana.
If an object’s enters-the-battlefield triggered ability or replacement effect refers to X, and the spell that became that object as it resolved had a value of X chosen for any of its costs, the value of X for that ability is the same as the value of X for that spell, although the value of X for that permanent is 0. This is an exception to rule 107.3i.
The tap symbol is {T}. The tap symbol in an activation cost means “Tap this permanent.” A permanent that’s already tapped can’t be tapped again to pay the cost. A creature’s activated ability with the tap symbol in its activation cost can’t be activated unless the creature has been under its controller’s control continuously since their most recent turn began. See rule 302.6.
The untap symbol is {Q}. The untap symbol in an activation cost means “Untap this permanent.” A permanent that’s already untapped can’t be untapped again to pay the cost. A creature’s activated ability with the untap symbol in its activation cost can’t be activated unless the creature has been under its controller’s control continuously since their most recent turn began. See rule 302.6.
Rulings
When determining what colors of mana your opponents' lands could produce, Exotic Orchard takes into account any applicable replacement effects that would apply to those lands' mana abilities (such as Contamination's effect, for example). If there are more than one, consider them in any possible order.
The colors of mana are white, blue, black, red, and green. Exotic Orchard can't be tapped for colorless mana, even if a land an opponent controls could produce colorless mana.
Exotic Orchard checks the effects of all mana-producing abilities of lands your opponents control, but it doesn't check their costs. For example, Vivid Crag has the ability "{T}, Remove a charge counter from Vivid Crag: Add one mana of any color." If an opponent controls Vivid Crag and you control Exotic Orchard, you can tap Exotic Orchard for any color of mana. It doesn't matter whether Vivid Crag has a charge counter on it, and it doesn't matter whether it's untapped.
Exotic Orchard doesn't care about any restrictions or riders your opponents' lands (such as Ancient Ziggurat or Hall of the Bandit Lord) put on the mana they produce. It just cares about colors of mana.
Lands that produce mana based only on what other lands "could produce" won't help each other unless some other land allows one of them to actually produce some type of mana. For example, if you control an Exotic Orchard and your opponent controls an Exotic Orchard and a Reflecting Pool, none of those lands would produce mana if their mana abilities were activated. On the other hand, if you control a Forest and an Exotic Orchard, and your opponent controls an Exotic Orchard and a Reflecting Pool, then each of those lands can be tapped to produce {G}. Your opponent's Exotic Orchard can produce {G} because you control a Forest. Your Exotic Orchard and your opponent's Reflecting Pool can each produce {G} because your opponent's Exotic Orchard can produce {G}.