Spawning Pool
Spawning Pool: Land, Tenth Edition. This land enters tapped. Tap: Add B. MTG card printings, market prices, rulings, and format legality on Mana Grove.
- Mana value
- 0
- Type
- Land
- Colour identity
- Black (B)
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Set
- Tenth Edition (10E)
- Released
- 2007-07-13
- Collector number
- 358
- Artist
- Nils Hamm
- Commander rank
- 14,430 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)
- Keywords
- Heal, Regenerate
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About Spawning Pool
Spawning Pool is a Magic: The Gathering card, an uncommon black land from Tenth Edition (10E), a core set released in July 2007. It is collector number 358 in that set, with art by Nils Hamm. As a land, it has no mana cost. Its colour identity is black. It is legal in Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Premodern, Commander, Duel Commander, Oathbreaker and PreDH. It has been printed in 3 sets, from Urza's Legacy (1999) to Tenth Edition (2007). The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $0.31 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-01).
Card text
This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {B}.
{1}{B}: This land becomes a 1/1 black Skeleton creature with "{B}: Regenerate this creature" until end of turn. It's still a land. (If it regenerates, the next time it would be destroyed this turn, instead tap it, remove it from combat, and heal all damage on it.)
Market price
Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $0.31 (as of 2026-11-01).
The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.
Format legality
Legality of Spawning Pool by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.
| Modern | Legal |
|---|---|
| Legacy | Legal |
| Vintage | Legal |
| Premodern | Legal |
| Commander | Legal |
| Duel Commander | Legal |
| Oathbreaker | Legal |
| PreDH | Legal |
Other printings of Spawning Pool
Spawning Pool has been printed in 3 sets. The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.
| Printing | Rarity | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Tenth Edition (10E) #358★ | Uncommon | 2007 |
| World Championship Decks 1999 (WC99) #js142 | Uncommon | 1999 |
| Urza's Legacy (ULG) #142 | Uncommon | 1999 |
Official rulings
Two official rulings apply to Spawning Pool, newest first.
- Activating the ability that turns it into a creature while it's already a creature will override any effects that set its power and/or toughness to a specific number. However, any effect that raises or lowers power and/or toughness (such as the effect created by Giant Growth, Glorious Anthem, or a +1/+1 counter) will continue to apply.
- A noncreature permanent that turns into a creature can attack, and its {T} abilities can be activated, only if its controller has continuously controlled that permanent since the beginning of their most recent turn. It doesn't matter how long the permanent has been a creature.
Similar cards
Other land cards with a black colour identity, ranked by how often they appear in Commander decks.
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