Faultline Sabotage
Volatile Fault is a utility land that fits into disruption shell strategies without adding color commitment. It taps for colorless mana to keep your early turns smooth and later doubles as a one time removal engine against problematic nonbasic lands. The printed ability reads cleanly and resolves in a single sequence making it predictable in meter heavy formats where timing and sequencing matter.
Use Volatile Fault to convert an exhausted board state into a tempo gain. Sacrifice it with the cost of one mana and a tap to destroy a nonbasic land an opponent controls. They may fetch a basic land, which maintains parity, while you generate a Treasure token to replace the lost resource. In play it is compact, efficient and reads well with land interaction packages in both casual and competitive decks from The Lost Caverns of Ixalan.
Card Details:
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Mana Cost –
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Card Type – Land
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Subtypes – Cave
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Card Text / Rules Text (Printed) – Tap: Add {C}. {1}, Tap, Sacrifice Volatile Fault: Destroy target nonbasic land an opponent controls. That player may search their library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. You create a Treasure token.
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Power / Toughness – N A
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Rarity – Uncommon
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Set – The Lost Caverns of Ixalan
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Style – Near Mint Foil