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Glacial Fortress

Card Name

Glacial Fortress

Type

Land

Rarity

Rare

rules Text

Glacial Fortress enters the battlefield tapped unless you control a Plains or an Island.: Add or .

Flavor Text

"Iceworld. A space trading colony on the dark side of the planet Svartos . . . I think there's something interesting going on there, Mel." —The Seventh Doctor

Legal Formats

Commander, Explorer, Historic, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage

Not Legal Formats

Alchemy, Brawl, Pauper, Standard

Rulings

(10/1/2009)
This checks for lands you control with the land type Plains or Island, not for lands named Plains or Island. The lands it checks for don't have to be basic lands. For example, if you control Watery Grave (a nonbasic land with the land types Island and Swamp), Glacial Fortress will enter untapped.
(10/1/2009)
As this is entering, it checks for lands that are already on the battlefield. It won't see lands that are entering at the same time (due to Warp World, for example).