Zuran Orb — Magic: The Gathering card

Zuran Orb

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Artifact

Sacrifice a land: You gain 2 life.

Set Ice Age
Rarity Uncommon
Artist Sandra Everingham

Why Play Zuran Orb

A zero-mana artifact that converts excess lands into life gain, Zuran Orb serves primarily as an enabler for landfall triggers and graveyard strategies rather than pure lifegain. The card shines in decks that can recur lands from the graveyard or generate additional land drops, allowing you to repeatedly sacrifice and replay the same lands. It's particularly valuable when you need to trigger "lands entering graveyard" effects or when facing aggressive decks where the life buffer buys crucial turns to stabilize.

Format Notes

Most commonly seen in Commander where the multiplayer format provides time to set up synergistic engines and the higher life totals make incremental lifegain more relevant. In competitive formats like Legacy and Modern, it occasionally appears in combo decks that exploit the land sacrifice rather than the lifegain itself. The card has never faced banning and remains a niche but consistent role-player across eternal formats.

Combos & Synergies

Pairs excellently with Crucible of Worlds and Life from the Loam to repeatedly sacrifice and recur the same lands, creating a powerful lifegain engine. Works well with landfall creatures like Scute Swarm or Omnath, Locus of Rage, where you can sacrifice lands after they've triggered your landfall abilities. The Gitrog Monster creates particularly explosive turns by drawing cards whenever you sacrifice lands to the Orb.

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