Arid Archway
Arid Archway: Land - Desert, Outlaws of Thunder Junction. This land enters tapped. Printings, market prices, rulings, and format legality on Mana Grove.
- Mana value
- 0
- Type
- Land - Desert
- Colour identity
- Colourless
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Set
- Outlaws of Thunder Junction (OTJ)
- Released
- 2024-04-19
- Collector number
- 252
- Artist
- Raymond Bonilla
- Commander rank
- 1,485 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)
- Keywords
- Surveil
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About Arid Archway
Arid Archway is a Magic: The Gathering card, an uncommon colourless land from Outlaws of Thunder Junction (OTJ), an expansion set released in April 2024. It is collector number 252 in that set, with art by Raymond Bonilla. As a land, it has no mana cost. It has no colour identity. It is legal in Standard, Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander, Oathbreaker, Brawl, Standard Brawl, Historic, Timeless and Gladiator. Outlaws of Thunder Junction is its only printing so far. The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $1.10 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-02).
Card text
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand. If another Desert was returned this way, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)
{T}: Add {C}{C}.
Market price
Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $1.10 (as of 2026-11-02).
The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.
Format legality
Legality of Arid Archway by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.
| Standard | Legal |
|---|---|
| Pioneer | Legal |
| Modern | Legal |
| Legacy | Legal |
| Vintage | Legal |
| Commander | Legal |
| Duel Commander | Legal |
| Oathbreaker | Legal |
| Brawl | Legal |
| Standard Brawl | Legal |
| Historic | Legal |
| Timeless | Legal |
| Gladiator | Legal |
Official rulings
Two official rulings apply to Arid Archway, newest first.
- Arid Archway will return itself to its owner’s hand if you control no other lands when its enters-the-battlefield ability resolves (or if you choose to return it to its owner’s hand despite controlling other lands). It’s almost never a good idea to play it on your first turn.
- Desert is a land subtype with no special meaning. It doesn’t grant the land an intrinsic mana ability. Other cards may care about which lands are Deserts.
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