Portal to the Grave
Matzalantli, the Great Door gives you a steady stream of card selection with a small cost in tempo. As a legendary artifact for {3} it taps to let you draw a card then discard a card. That exchange is tidy and repeatable, which makes Matzalantli an efficient draw engine for decks that want to sculpt the graveyard or enable synergies that trigger from discards. The printed foil treatment in this Lost Caverns of Ixalan release looks crisp and highlights the sculpted gears and subterranean archway that define its identity.
The second ability turns this into a payoff piece. For {4} and a tap you can transform Matzalantli, the Great Door but only once your graveyard contains four or more permanent types. That requirement leans into multi type strategies and rewards deliberate deck construction. In practice the card fits well in artifact centric builds, graveyard value decks, and toolbox shells that can supply different permanent types while using the draw discard loop to find answers.
Card Details:
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Mana Cost – {3}
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Card Type – Legendary Artifact
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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.)
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