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Matzalantli, the Great Door is a compact engine for graveyard driven strategies. This Legendary Artifact gives you a reliable cantrip with its tap ability that draws and then discards. You can use that loop to filter to key pieces, feed delve and flashback, or trigger sacrifice and enter the battlefield synergies. The Light Play foil shown reflects the set icon and art from The Lost Caverns of Ixalan while keeping edges and surface suitable for play in most casual and competitive events.
The secondary mode transforms the artifact when you pay its activation cost and meet the graveyard condition of having four or more permanent types among cards there. That requirement rewards decks that mix artifacts, creatures, enchantments, lands, planeswalkers and battles. Matzalantli, the Great Door fits particularly well in graveyard value shells and Grixis or colorless artifact lists where card selection and long term value matter more than raw speed.
Card Details:
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Mana Cost – {3}
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Card Type – Artifact
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Subtypes – Legendary
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Card Text / Rules Text (Printed) – {T}: Draw a card, then discard a card. 4, {T}: Transform Matzalantli, the Great Door. 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.)