Gate is a nonbasic land type that is featured in the Return to Ravnica block.
Description
Gates are common dual lands that can tap for either of two different colors of mana (one for each guild). That it is a Gate doesn't mean anything on its own, but it's a marker that other cards look for. The subtype only appears on cards named "Guildgate", there are ten Guildgates, one for every Guild of Ravnica. Five of them were printed in each of the first two sets of the block. In the third set they were all reprinted.[1]
Examples
Role
According to Mark Rosewater the Gates weren't supposed to pull focus early, so there were just enough cards mentioning Gates to keep players from asking why the Gate subtype even existed.[2] In the third set of the block their full potential was used.
List of Gate cards
The allied-colored gates were first printed in Return to Ravnica. The enemy-colored gates were first printed in Gatecrash. All gates got a new artwork in Dragon's Maze.[3]
Allied colored
- Azorius Guildgate (
) - Dimir Guildgate (
) - Rakdos Guildgate (
) - Gruul Guildgate (
) - Selesnya Guildgate ()
Enemy colored
Associated cards
Return to Ravnica
Gatecrash
Dragon's Maze
- Maze's End
- Opal Lake Gatekeepers
- Saruli Gatekeepers
- Smelt-Ward Gatekeepers
- Sunspire Gatekeepers
- Ubul Sar Gatekeepers
Gate message
Each gate has several letters in the flavor text that are slightly elevated higher than the rest.[4]
Return to Ravnica
| T | I | F | I | Azorius |
| H | L | R | C | Izzet |
| E | D | A | A | Rakdos |
| G | S | V | Golgari | |
| U | O | N | Selesnya |
"The guilds of Ravnica"
Gatecrash
| W | E | Y | O | Orzhov |
| I | S | E | T | Dimir |
| L | T | A | H | Gruul |
| L | R | C | E | Boros |
| D | O | H | R | Simic |
"Will destroy each other"
Dragon's Maze
Order of the Guilds as depicted in Tablet of the Guilds
| U | A | D | L | R | Azorius |
| N | Z | A | D | N | Orzhov |
| L | E | N | P | Dimir | |
| E | I | D | A | Izzet | |
| S | S | T | C | Rakdos | |
| S | S | H | T | Golgari | |
| T | O | E | R | Gruul | |
| H | L | G | E | Boros | |
| E | V | U | B | Selesnya | |
| M | E | I | O | Simic |
"Unless the maze is solved and the guildpact reborn"
References
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