The following cards without the ability word Landfall:
Courser of Kruphix; Nissa, Vastwood Seer; Primeval Bounty; Sporemound; Stone-Seeder Hierophant; Vinelasher Kudzu; Zendikar's Roil.
Why?
eng1809.
- I can't give you an official answer, but a few educated guess.
- Ability words are like flavor text. They add no function and are italic. Its most practical use is to search for gather.
- Landfall is a Zendikar mechanic, so only cards from the two Zendikar blocks use the landfall ability word.
- It is not uncommon that there are similar mechanics in exist in keyworded and non-keyworded form in magic, compare Ghostflame Sliver to Forerunner of Slaughter for example.
- I hope that clears things up. You can try to get an official answer at Blogatog - Yandere Sliver
12:08, 19 January 2016 (UTC)
Oracle back-errata[]
A Reddit thread has pointed out that the Oracle wording of some non-surveil cards has been updated to use surveil. The redditor u/cardologist thinks it happened some time between the Unfinity/40K release and October 6, 2022.
In making that update, outlined on Talk:Surveil, I've run across this Blogatog post[1] that Mark Rosewater confirms Landfall has also recieved the same promotion to deciduous mechanic and the ability word has be errata'd onto a number of older cards.
Reference[]
- ↑ Mark Rosewater (October 15, 2022). "Mark... gatherer had a weird update this morning. Are surveil and landfall becoming evergreen?". Blogatog. Tumblr.
-- RivalRowan (talk) 20:29, 15 October 2022 (UTC)