Imagine protecting a 7+ cmc card that you can return to your hand whenever you need to cast it

That’s a downside like paying life for shock lands is a downside in a Death’s Shadow deck.

The most ridiculous part is that the risk isn't even really a risk as you can still tap the labyrinth for one mana.

It's weird how much Ugin cards synergize with Eldrazi given his main characteristic is hating them.

I remember Grand Prix Detroit. The wind was harsh and the snow blew fierce and inside was a different winter. 85% of the entire tournament was Eldrazi. Very few deck could stand against them. I was one of the few not running Eldrazi and one of the fewer who was running Infect, one of the decks that potentially could out pace them. I made it to day 2. The Eldrazi Winter was real.

I don’t know wizards wanted eldrazi tron to be tier 1 again but look at where we are now

The "downside" of having to give up a card isn't a downside, since you can get it back at anytime. Plus, you get to hide that card from discard decks, keep it safe.

I agree, Seth. Modern has banned most turn 1 chalice enablers, and so the printing of this shocks me.

I wonder if Affinity will use this. Putting something like Myr Enforcer or Sojourner's Companion under this to have 2 mana isn't a bad thing.

The funniest idea of this card "not being broken" is the idea that it needs to slot into a pre-existing deck to be broken. Sometimes, decks just sorta... Suddenly pop up out of nowhere. This card doesn't need a home to be broken. It produces 2 mana; it could create its own home. It could combo with cards in the set we haven't even seen yet, or cards from upcoming sets. It is already gonna be broken, that's an undeniable fact, but like... Even if by some miracle it continues to be undervalued, it will be broken eventually. 2 mana lands are simply too good to not eventually break.

The song playing in the background is an instrumental version of Honest Mistake by The Bravery. I’ve loved that song since I was a kid. can’t wait for it to be the anthem of format warping cards.

Idk you need to run 7+ cmc cards, while simultaneously having an incentive to have turbo mana (a strategic design which legacy would consider a nonbo due to moderns lacking of fast mana or muxus equivalent) and like yeah it’s perfect for tron and maybe boomer affinity but it seems far to niche to be what everyone is worrying about.

Seems like half the people evaluating this don't mention it only gets colorless cards. 7+ mana is a big restriction. But 7+ mana plus only colorless means this is pretty much just for eldrazi, ugin, and big artifacts. All good, don't get me wrong. But VERY narrow.

I think youre gonna find that having a 7cmc card AND this reliably while also having a functional hand is gonna be harder than you think. Especially when opponent can jist thoughtseize your 7cmc card away t1 and now youre just sitting there with a terrible land. Those others lands are busted cause they dont require another card to function

Good thing boseiju and field of ruin exist

On one hand labyrint's "drawback" is more of a condition to use tha a drawback. One can always use city of traitors to it's fullest, but with ugin's labyrinth you run the risk of clogging your hand with high cmc cards. On the other hand the deck enabled by labyrinth might verywell be busted.

Honest Mistake by Bravery playing in the background

Boseiju's stock just went up, Ima enjoy paying mana to strip mine and discard my opponent

I think this will for sure be one of the most expensive cards in the set due to its power. But I can only imagine it'll see play in just modern tron. And due to this card I could see plenty of players swapping from wurmcoil engine to phyrexian fleshgorger solely to add more 7 cmc+ cards into the deck. I'm also considering cutting all of the oblivion stones for all is dust for the same reason. Also the potential for turn 2 one ring is pretty busted. Imo this land should've been legendary.

I would say it's biggest issue with this is the current decks would need to be redesigned to use this. Tron runs about 8 cards + 2 sideboard that will hit the imprint, Affinity only runs 4 cards. This might become a EDH staple for artifact decks. Affinity runs pretty much 2 mana per artifact land, as thought monitor is not colourless Tron only runs 8-10 cards so with this land in hand you only have about 17% chance to get this card working from draw. Where the new tron land instant triggers tron. Not to mention ghost quarters is in most decks to stop tron- this would be such a juicy target as you send them back 1 mana AND remove a card.

I cant even read the card b/c of all the pop ups and text on the screen "Buy Super Thanks"

I think part of the issue is the critical mass of colorless producing lands in modern

It pairs very well with Not of this world. After you cast your big creature, you can protect it by taking back your tribal instant.

Bruh, Modern Horizons 3 itself is a mistake.

The only downside I see in ugin's labyrinth is if your opponent drops a ghost quarter or something and gets your land AND the card you exiled, since you can't get it back.

Chalice of the void on 1 on the play seems nutty

In show and tell it could be busted, put an Emrakul under it and return it hand when ready to cheat it into play, its even better if its a spare one and your opponent tries to do everything to remove the land

my brain immediately turns show and tell decks with emrakul or the scion of draco with 12 cmc that's at the fringes of legacy.

I think the imprint condition downside will keep the card in check for the most part, but we’ll see.

Deathcloud should return to surprise of those 2 lands decks

Friendly reminder that "activate abilities of colorless Eldrazi" only applies to Eldrazi permanents on the battlefield

For everyone saying that’s too narrow: a quick scryfall search revealed there are over 150 colorless cards over 7 mana

The thing is that this makes it more narrow that what decks can utilise labyrinth. You still need to have 7cmc colorless card in your hand for it to be "broken". Like affinity and maybe tron will like this card but its not going to be format defining slots in to every deck type of card that the other sol lands are in legacy.

If it didn't make mana without having a card to imprint, it'd be balanced imo. But the fact that it still does something even if you don't meet its condition means it's just crazy good

Affinity can just exile a myr retriever or sojourners companion and then get an ancient tomb. What’s worse is that affinity ALSO got kappa cannoneer

Boseiju: "I'mma bout to end this man's whole career"

Trust me, the drawback of City of Traitors is not harsh at all. That land can give you at least 4 mana just because, I actually think Ugin's Labyrinth is safe

I do feel like this is being overstated in the same way City of Traitors is being overstated. City of Traitors is really good in one deck in Legacy that isn’t doing great. I don’t expect this land to be any different.

I see rise of old eldrazi to dump the exiled card in the yard as sideboard

I'd argue that needing to exile 7+ cmc is not a downside akin to traitors or shocklands, but more of a hard requirement that will make it worryingly inconsistent. If your deck already wants to run those cards it is definitely good, but I don't think those are the same decks that want to be running fast mana.

I have an Eldrazi commander deck. This seems like a good card to put in there.

This card work pretty well with affinity I think

My read on it (admittedly from someone who doesn't play much modern anymore but has taken a look at the meta) is that it's not that the card isn't powerful or that the drawback of pitching a card is very high during the game, but that the deck construction requirement to make this playable puts you very behind in modern even with the boost. Most decks that I've seen in modern lately are fairly low to the ground and efficient even as midrange decks, which gives me slightly more reason to believe this won't just run away with the format. Could very well be wrong of course but I'm at least interested to see!

and thank god the 1-land-full-tron is for commander only despite how funny it sounds from modern horizons 3

There is no deckbuilding restriction to playing tomb or city. The required amount of 7+ drops you have to play to have a land that isn’t a nonbasic wastes more than 50% of the time is a legitimate drawback. Once the lands in play with an imprinted card, its insanely powerful, but it doesn’t do its thing 100% of the time like tomb or city does

Another winter approaches

Flavor win using Honest Mistake as the backing Track for the video, I love The Bravery!!

Yea the problem is that at worst it’s just a land that taps for colorless. If they made it so you needed to exile a card or it did nothing, it would be safe. Now I’m unsure, we’ll see

Mono green tron currently runs 8 7 mv+ cards which would give you a 93% to get one in your opening hand

city of traitors has a harsher draw back but it's way more consistent bc you don't need to draw one of your threats immediately to use it

The issue with this card over the other 2 mana lands is that the others are typically used to quickly power out aggressive threats, but this requires your deck to run a density of 7+ mana value cards to actually be useful. The only deck I could see running something like this is Tron, but you know they'd probably rather be playing a Tron land. I think this will see some play, but it is massively overhyped.

Definitely going to see play, definitely will break something and get banned down the road. You don't even give up much since the exiled card wouldn't be easily cast early in many cases. Also - props to the choice of song!! (The Bravery - "Honest Mistake").

I think people are just thinking of this in just the context of eldrazi. Imagine this in affinity lmao.

The problem with the Labyrinth is you can just play it as a colorless land. It shouldn't make mana if you didn't imprint anything

Time for Eldrazi Winter take 2. Gives eldrazi in modern 8 soul lands, for the cost of running enough cmc 7 cardas. Add in gemstone cavern+serium powder+Eternal Scourge kit, to basically guaranteed turn one mimics or chalice and turn two thought-knot seers/reality smashers. Could maindeck a leyline of the void or the hexproof one to. We will see if that's still good enough.

Imagine playing 2 sol rings T1 in an affinity deck

I think it'd've been less broken if the extra mana required an exile each time you tapped it. Like "{t}: Add {c}. You may exile a colorless card with MV7+ from your hand, if you do add an additional {c}. Get a big mana boost early, but at a much heftier card-advantage loss if activated multiple times. But also letting each ability flow into the other. If you don't need the mana this turn, you get back the card, then exile the next time you do need the extra mana. At least it does turn off if/when they get back the exiled card.

Will see play ,but in a regular deck, nothing to wory about

I'm leaning towards staple pushing on broken but not banned, kind of like where urza's saga is right now.

This card is ALL upside! It’s a land that can easily tap for 2, protect a card from discard decks, and when it’s not being broken it’s just a colorless land that comes in untapped. Every big eldrazi or artifact deck will play it and it’s a reason to play those decks.

How many 7 cmc+ cards can you really play to turn this on?

(we talk Eldrazi but watch out for Artifact decks if they get support) The draw back is having to play the 7+ mana cost cards and being a -1. That alone has stopped cards from seeing play in the past but this CAN be a 2 mana land which we have seen eventually becomes powerful. This is bad with no 7+ cost in hand, 7+ are bad in hand without this; and by the time those 7+ costs want to get on board this is worst than a basic land since you want to play the expensive impactful spells, not have them exiled, so it has a timer on it. This obviously isnt auto include, and decks that play those high costs cards usually have better ways to cheat them out. Remember those cards we compare this to fueled aggro decks that didnt care about their downsides. This is a really cool, more fun to play, alternative to "enters tap" (front-loaded power always feels better to play) since you have to tap and lose the mana to get the card back, then this turns into a bad land. This also finds a purpose for the top end of Eldrazi and artifact spells before turn 10, and that's cool. It probably will further break one of the already broken formats, question is if this will push decks enough to move them up past other broken decks (probably not since the cards you compared this to are way better in those decks).

The thing about city of traitors and ancient tomb in legacy is they can go in any deck, this has a deck building restriction so it really only can go in tron

It's literally just a fixed Eye of Ugin that requires you to go -1 in the early game. Unless you're running a bunch of 7+ colorless cmc cards it will likely be an offline card in the early game: whereas the broken lands that tap for 2 colorless are online immediately. It's clunky enough that fast combo decks can't use it consistently and decks that can use it consistently are too slow to be good by design. In the right deck it's a more playable Temple of the False Gods, and that's it.

This card, unlike Ancient Tomb or City of Traitors, has a way harsher deck building cost. AT or CoT can be used to power up your 3-4 drops in Legacy, this also could but you still have to include 7 drops for this to work and the multiples are not that great because each of them requires you to exile a card from your hand. This is leagues below Ancient Tomb and more similiar to City but I think it is massively worse than it.

Yeah, the response is to wait for them to tap it, then land destruction. Thanks for exiling that Emrakul for me, ✌️

Remember myr enforcer is 7 manna and so are other cards in affinity (and they are colorless) just say welcome to turn one patchwork automaton!

I had a friend print it out (along with a lot of the leaked new Eldrazis) and play it in a commander deck yesterday. All I gotta say is yeah, it's a mistake.

So you need a 7 mana spell to be able to play it and be able to tap for 2 colorless.. I feel like once again this card is over-hyped. If it gets removed, or loses it's abilities, you can't even get your "game ender back"

While I agree that Ugin's labyrith is most likely broken you can't compare it to Eye of Ugin, Eye of Ugin get exponatially better the more spells you play in a turn. Remember Discount > mana especially in colorless

even with city of traitors drawback you can go 2 mana turn 1, tap it turn 2 play another city of traitors and tap that for 4 mana turn 2. it seems harsh, but if you think about the sol rings, mindstones and whatnot its completly broken.

Ghost quarter lookin sexy rn

I think I can agree that ugin’s labyrinth will be banned in modern because of its power. Yes you exile the imprinted colorless spell, say ulamog for a few rounds and then use the second tap effect for the land to retrieve the ulamog and the cast it. That fact alone is insane to think about but let’s see how it plays first.

Tomb works because life loss is just a resource, and if you're spending that to get ahead of your opponent making it easier to lose by lowering your life doesn't matter, and it's hard to fall behind when you're spending twice the mana they are. This isn't temple or eye, since that mana acceleration was used for aggro, which doesn't tend to run 7cmc colourless cards, and ideally wouldn't want them in their opening hand anyway. Tron is the obvious one, since this makes as much as a power plant and protects your bombs from discard, but crucially this isn't a power plant right? It slows down Tron. Also you'd lose the 2 mana on the turn you want to cast said bomb, since that's also a tap effect, and on following turns its just a basic waste effectively. Not the best tradeoff even vs decks with discard and otherwise just kneecapping your effective tempo for a turn. Tapping for 2 is still pretty powerful, but I don't see a clear shell for this nor is it functionally strong enough to build around, then again I'm not as in touch with the meta as I used to be so I'd love to hear where this would be a fun fit. UTron perhaps? ^^

Sinkhole needs to comeback

The fact that you have to tap it is why it's balanced atleast by comparison to Eye of Ugin. Eye could represent 4-6 mana on turn 1 pretty consistently with the Mimic, Endless One builds. Yes there's an argument to be made about critical mass and stuff like that but decks that want to play Labyrinth and do want colorless 7 drops are few and far between, most of them are Tron which I don't even think labyrinth is good for since planar nexus is much better anyways in all likelihood. Simply because it's easier to guarantee a Nexus plus tower on turn 2 to get 4 mana than it is to guarantee labyrinth plus a 7 drop on 1 and negatively offset the 12 tron lands.

TL:DR -- This will do very powerful things, but its deckbuilding restriction doesn't help it do ban-worthy things in Modern yet. I believe this is a very powerful land, and the ability to get back the exiled card is a big part of that. But I don't think that this will be banned. While its situational downside is milder than that of City, it does have a significant deckbuilding restriction. None of the current Big Colorless decks in Modern have a significant ability to exploit it, to my eye at least. For this to be ban-worthy, it needs a deck that can (A) consistently (B) do something significantly more broken than the rest of the format (C) in the first three turns or so of the game, while (D) being mostly colorless and running many very expensive cards. There isn't a deck that fits that mold yet as far as I am aware or can predict.

Turn one ugins labyrinth exiling blightsteel colossus, play 4 LEDs, crack all 4 LEDs for 12 mana, Tap ugins labyrinth to return blightsteel to your hand and cast it. Turn 2 attack for lethal infect. Fool proof game plan

Yes but City of Traitors' drawback destroys it after you've used it to ramp and put a ton of rocks into play. Labyrinth's drawback means it isn't online in the first place if you don't meet the condition. It's basically always helpful to play city of traitors, but Ugin's labyrinth is just not useful if you didn't draw your +7 CMC to imprint on it

famously fair those sol lands

City of traitors has no up front cost. This does. It's going to be bad

If the Reveal Lands, like Furycalm Snarl, are bad because you need a specific card in hand, then shouldn't this be only marginally better? And I can see the comparison to City of Traitors, since both potential tap for 2 colorless, but City of Traitors aleays taps for two and you can guarantee that the next time you play one it taps for two mana. You need additional 7+ drops to guarantee Ugin taps for 2. Granted, playing Karn Liberated, and Ugin, and any number of expensive artifacts just works. Myr Enforcer, even. So it's probably really easy to use in Affinity style or Tron style decks.

And if it doesn't feel enough for you, it's NOT legendary.

The downside is much more of a deck building draw back. It’s insanely powerful but the fact that it only goes into eldrazi and it has to be a version that runs 7+ cmc eldrazi makes this card worse than people anticipated. Still insanely stupid powerful but not as powerful as it could be.

MTG must print cards that could get banned. That way, they can experiment with mechanics. I purposely try to break cards and make insane combos just to see what happens.

The downside is it has a tap symbol

I'm not sure if it's a mistake, but it's definitely broken

Over hyped to drive sales

I don't think it's going to be that problematic honestly... but it's not going to be weak, that's for damn sure! This will surely place Eldrazi Tron from T3 to at least T2 - T1.5... and another deck for me to go fight in tournaments! I for one, welcome this. :)

all feed to the blood moon

Yeaahhhhh this card might be too much, it's one thing if the card at least stays exiled, but you can use the land easily fetch it back the same turn with no strings attached.

I said the same thing with my boy as soon as I saw it.

Love it for legacy eldrazi prison deck I play. It will definitely speed up tron modern

what? wizards printing cards that are blatantly overpowered into a format that need to get banned? i’m shocked!

This is going to be another eldrazi summer. I expect to see labyrinth banned not too long after release.

At a bare minimum, I feel like the card should be "2 or 0", it shouldn't still get to tap for 1 if you didn't imprint it. Then it can at least miss a bit harder and forces more top-heavy deck construction to try to get consistent value from it.

How many 7+ cost cards do you need to run for the first labyrinth to be online reliably on turn 1-2?

Imo playing it with delve guys might be competitive, just having a second eldrazi temple probably isn't actually that busted- if anything it'd be pushing a tier 2 deck into tier 1.5. Modern has escalated in power level to the point that I don't think it's relevant. As a way to ramp for various artifact combo decks might be kind of broken but this also assumes there's a shell for it and that tron isn't simply just better for what it is that type of archetype would be trying to do. A lot of karn based combo decks don't really *want* enough 7 mana cards to exile. Turn 2-3 one ring does seem kind of busted, but tbf that's more because I think one ring is the mistake there and not this card. I guess if I had to give a tldr version, I think the card has potential to be busted but I don't think at this point it is- I haven't checked the rest of the spoiler though.

Well at least it isn’t named urzas labyrinth

Question. Could you theoretically destroy ugin's labyrinth after imprinting to keep the card in exile?