---
name: "Smoldering Marsh"
mana_cost: "N/A"
cmc: 0
type_line: "Land — Swamp Mountain"
colors: []
color_identity: ["B", "R"]
keywords: []
set: "VOC"
set_name: "Crimson Vow Commander"
collector_number: "183"
rarity: "rare"
artist: "Shahab Alizadeh"
oracle_id: "390f1b56-264e-4336-83be-dc1fe79bfdcf"
canonical_url: "https://avascry.com/printing/smoldering-marsh-voc"
legalities:
  commander: "legal"
  standard: "not_legal"
  modern: "legal"
  pioneer: "legal"
  legacy: "legal"
  vintage: "legal"
  pauper: "not_legal"
  penny: "legal"
---

# Smoldering Marsh
- **Mana Cost:** `N/A` (CMC: 0)
- **Type:** Land — Swamp Mountain

## Oracle Text
({T}: Add {B} or {R}.)
This land enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.

## Top 4096-Dim Neural Synergies
1. [Sulfurous Mire](/printing/sulfurous-mire-khm.md) — Snow Land — Swamp Mountain
2. [Geothermal Bog](/printing/geothermal-bog-dsc.md) — Land — Swamp Mountain
3. [Blooming Marsh](/printing/blooming-marsh-otj.md) — Land
4. [Sunken Hollow](/printing/sunken-hollow-msc.md) — Land — Island Swamp
5. [Eclipsed Steppe](/printing/eclipsed-steppe-soc.md) — Land — Plains Swamp
6. [Shipwreck Marsh](/printing/shipwreck-marsh-inr.md) — Land

## Printing Details
- **Set:** Crimson Vow Commander (VOC) #183
- **Rarity:** Rare
- **Artist:** Shahab Alizadeh
- **Total Printings:** 34 across all historical editions

## Format Legalities
Commander: `legal` | Standard: `not_legal` | Modern: `legal` | Pioneer: `legal` | Legacy: `legal` | Vintage: `legal` | Pauper: `not_legal` | Penny: `legal`

## Official Rulings
- *(2015-08-25)* Even though these lands have basic land types, they are not basic lands because "basic" doesn't appear on their type line. Notably, controlling two or more of them won't allow others to enter the battlefield untapped.
- *(2015-08-25)* If one of these lands enters the battlefield at the same time as any number of basic lands, those other lands are not counted when determining if this land enters the battlefield tapped or untapped.
- *(2015-08-25)* However, because these cards have basic land types, effects that specify a basic land type without also specifying that the land be basic can affect them. For example, a spell or ability that reads "Destroy target Forest" can target Canopy Vista, while one that reads "Destroy target basic Forest" cannot.