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Cyclopean Tomb
Artifact
rare
, : Put a mire counter on target non-Swamp land. That land is a Swamp for as long as it has a mire counter on it. Activate only during your upkeep. When this artifact is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, at the beginning of each of your upkeeps for the rest of the game, remove all mire counters from a land that a mire counter was put onto with this artifact but that a mire counter has not been removed from with this artifact.
Semantic Tags
Cares about cards in the graveyard, puts cards into the graveyard, or benefits from things dying.
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.”
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Printings (8)
| Set | Rarity | TCGplayer | Card Kingdom | Cardmarket |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30th Anniversary Edition#533 | rare | · | · | · |
| 30th Anniversary Edition#236 | rare | · | · | · |
| Masters Edition IV#195 | rare | · | · | · |
| Collectors' Edition#241 | rare | · | · | · |
| Intl. Collectors' Edition#241 | rare | · | · | · |
| Unlimited Edition#241 | rare | · | · | · |
| Limited Edition Beta#241 | rare | · | · | · |
| Limited Edition Alpha#240 | 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
Will not add or remove the supertype snow to or from a land.
The delayed triggered ability created when Cyclopean Tomb is put into a graveyard from the battlefield triggers during each of your upkeeps for the rest of the game. As it resolves, you must remove a mire counter from a land that had a mire counter put on it by that instance of Cyclopean Tomb, but it doesn't matter where the mire counter you remove came from. For instance, you could remove mire counters that were put on the land by Gilder Bairn.
The land remains a Swamp as long as it has a mire counter on it. This effect is not tied to the Tomb remaining on the battlefield.