Matzalantli, the Great Door // The Core
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
The Lost Caverns of IxalanLCI · #256
- Card type
- Legendary Artifact
- Rarity
- Rare
- Indicative price
- 2.15 € · ★ 2.91 € · 3.33 $ · ★ 3.72 $
- Mana value
- 3
- Colour
- Colourless
Card text
: Draw a card, then discard a card. , : Transform Matzalantli. Activate only if there are four or more permanent types among cards in your graveyard. (Artifact, battle, creature, enchantment, land, and planeswalker are permanent types.)
Format legality
- BrawlLegal
- CommanderLegal
- CompetitivebrawlLegal
- DuelLegal
- FutureLegal
- GladiatorLegal
- HistoricLegal
- LegacyLegal
- ModernLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- PennyLegal
- PioneerLegal
- StandardLegal
- StandardbrawlLegal
- TimelessLegal
- VintageLegal
Legalities follow the imported catalogue; check format rules before a tournament.
Data imported on 2026-10-06 (UTC).
Indicative Scryfall prices, updated daily. ★: foil; ★ E: etched foil. EUR and USD represent different markets.
Printing information
- Illustrator
- Piotr Dura
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 2023-11-17
The Core
Legendary Land
(Transforms from Matzalantli.) Fathomless descent — : Add X mana of any one color, where X is the number of permanent cards in your graveyard.
Rulings
Cards with the ability word "fathomless descent" have abilities that care how many permanent cards are in your graveyard.
Some descend triggered abilities include intervening "if" clauses (i.e. "if you have [four or eight] permanent cards in your graveyard" in the middle of the ability). Each of these abilities checks your graveyard at the moment it would trigger to see if it does. If you don't have the required number of permanent cards in your graveyard at that time, the ability doesn't trigger at all. If it does trigger, it will check again as it tries to resolve. If you don't have the required number of permanent cards in your graveyard at that time, the ability won't resolve and none of its effects will happen.
The Core's activated ability is a mana ability. It doesn't use the stack and can't be responded to.
Transforming Matzalantli doesn't cause it to leave the battlefield. It also doesn't cause it to become untapped.