Crawling Barrens
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Magic: The Gathering
- Card type
- Land
- Rarity
- Rare
- Indicative price
- Price unavailable
- Mana value
- 0
- Colour
- Colourless
Card text
: Add . : Put two +1/+1 counters on this land. Then you may have it become a 0/0 Elemental creature until end of turn. It's still a land.
Format legality
- AlchemyLegal
- BrawlLegal
- CommanderLegal
- 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).
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Printing information
- Illustrator
- Jonas De Ro
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 2002-06-24
Rulings
Counters on Crawling Barrens remain on it when it stops being a creature. If it becomes a creature later, they'll apply to it.
If this becomes a creature but you haven't controlled it continuously since your most recent turn began, you won't be able to activate its mana ability or attack with it that turn.
Unless Crawling Barrens is already a creature, its second ability causes the +1/+1 counters to be put onto a noncreature land. Abilities that apply or trigger when counters are put on a creature you control won't do so.
You can activate Crawling Barrens's second ability even if it's already a creature.