Blanket of Night
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
VisionsVIS · #52
- Card type
- Enchantment
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Indicative price
- 0.53 € · 1.31 $
- Mana value
- 3
- Colour
- Black
Card text
Each land is a Swamp in addition to its other land types.
Format legality
- CommanderLegal
- DuelLegal
- LegacyLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- PredhLegal
- PremodernLegal
- VintageLegal
Legalities follow the imported catalogue; check format rules before a tournament.
Data imported on 2026-10-06 (UTC).
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Printing information
- Illustrator
- Cliff Nielsen
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 1997-02-03
Flavour text
"Kaervek imprisoned Mangara out of jealousy, but he taints Jamuraa simply out of spite." —Asmira, Holy Avenger
Rulings
Anything which counts the number of Swamps on the battlefield will not double count an actual Swamp card while Blanket of Night is on the battlefield.
It can affect lands which do not produce mana.
More than one Blanket of Night has no meaningful additional effect.
The ability is a land type change effect so it is ordered along with other land type change effects in the order they entered the battlefield.
The land can now be tapped for black mana in addition to any other abilities it already has. This works just as if the text “: Add ” was added to each mana-producing land. In other words, the land can be tapped for its own ability _or_ it can be tapped for black mana. Not both.
The lands do not get the name “Swamp” in addition to their current name. This is a reversal of older rulings.
Whether the land is a basic land or not is unchanged by this effect.
If this effect is applied to a snow land, the land is now a snow Swamp and not just a regular Swamp.