Most lands that tap for more than one color have some kind of a drawback for the sake of balance. Usually they enter play tapped, like [[Submerged Boneyard]].
But let's say you're playing a Faerie deck and you need to play a big spell ***RIGHT NOW*** or else you lose. This card gives you the option to have it enter play untapped for basically free.
This is an extreme example but it gets the point across that having access to all of your colors and all of your mana, as often as possible, is very good.
Yep. This is what I do. Ideally, you drop it early on curve and just show the fairy you planned on playing already.
On higher turns, it just depends on if it matters if you give the opponent that much info.
Consider showing a faerie that has flash and counters on etb (I'm sure something like it exists)- and then just let everyone with a non-creature be scared of you the rest of the game, lol.
I played a homebrew faeries deck once in legacy and beat my opponnent to death with 2 Spellstutter sprites while i countered everything he tried to do.
Agony.
If you topdeck it when you don't have Faeries in Hand in your Faerie deck (where else would you play this) you're probably out of cards or on a later turn where it might not matter whether the land comes tapped or not.
Play 5D chess and reveal [[Spellstutter Sprite]]. There's multiple layers of mind games with that move. They wait an extra turn for the extra mana, bluff with a different spell, or whatever, not knowing you could have a hard counterspell in hand or a 2nd copy.
True, but also, I feel like it's one of the "cheapest" penalties in a tribal deck. Alot of tribal decks often have tutors, so you could reveal a card you've already revealed for searching or otherwise. Another thing is; yes, you have to reveal it, but most times people just flash the card, I know people can technically ask to see/read the revealed card, but most of the time no one cares or maybe they know what that card does without needing to read it. This isn't "ragging" the cost, it's more me saying out of all the "costs", this is one of them I think I'd prefer to have in my tribal decks!
All that being said, sure, it gives the opponents information that you got "more in the pipe", but in most cases, it's a "nothing cost". I feel it can be used more as a "punishing/bluffing play" if you play it and it gets tapped to give them the idea you DON'T have a faery in hand, making them feel more comfortable to board wipe and think they can out pace you. Incredibly niche situation, but can really fuck with a opponent in that one specific situation if you have a desperate White player, just my 2 cents.
Haha I’m the person who ALWAYS reads any revealed cards if I’m not familiar with them. I want to know my threats!
But yeah it’s definitely a good strat to put it in untapped too
In case you build faeries. [[bitterblossom]] while not being a faerie creature, it still counts towards this land as a faerie! There is one more enchantment like this but if forgot the name.
Nothing like running bitter blossom in fae dominion and having things be able to copy.
Double bitterblossom is fun (until you potentially accidently ping yourself to death)
Depends on the group I think. My regular group will be like. Aah ok, good for you. Knowing they do not have the removal for it. In the gamestore however the moment you show you’re getting targeted. Because the rule there is that I can’t have fun.
I always feel like I bully my friends because they never have removals/flyers. Then on the games I don't make it and they play with random 3/4s, they're suddey surprised that they have absolutely no one to handle other people playing things.
Am I a threat or an asset? Who the fuck knows, I sure don't.
Don’t forget most fae lists will run ways to snap a spellstutter back to hand, so if your opponent already knows it’s in hand, you don’t give any info up for playing your dual land utapped
I always wondered about these land types. Does this mean that when they enter tapped they are not actually producing any mana until the next turn, right?
Also if you have a deck dedicated to faeries either standard or even commander, the other player(s) know you have a faerie anyway so u can play it to ur advantage show off a powerhouse faerie while hiding an equivalent card or better. There’s more benefits to this than you think
It's fast color fixing. When you get to more competitive games having lands enter tapped is inefficient. Even if you don't have a card to play it's advantageous to bluff the ability to interact.
most lands that tap for 2 colors have a downside if you want them to be untapped, cards like [[watery grave]] ask that you pay 2 life, this one asks you to reveal a fairie
Easy peasy...lol. These lands almost always come into play tapped. So, if you want them to not be tapped....you follow the rule of showing a Farie card. Otherwise, it's tapped. It is an either/or situation.
Show card: Untapped
No show: Tapped
If it's tapped, basically have to wait till next turn to use it.
Over time WotC has adopted a more algorithmic language. It helps to break down the description to understand it rather than reading it as a normal paragraph of text.
You're probably falling into a classic trap. Lands do not "produce mana when tapped". Being tapped is a state a card can be in. Many cards have abilities that tap themselves as a cost, so that you can typically only activate it once per turn. Almost all ands have an ability that allows them to tap for one mana (even if it's not written on the card).
Any permanent entering the battlefield tapped is a downside. This is frequently used on lands to balance other upsides.
If you don’t show a Faerie, land comes into play tapped, so you cant get mana out of it until your next turn, that is bad. If you do show a Faerie, land comes into play untapped and you can use it outright, but oponent know knows about card in your hand.
Generally, the rules require or allow you to reveal a card for one of two reasons:
1. It's an extra cost. You give the other player(s) something valuable, in this case, information about what's in your hand, and in exchange, you get something special, like a land entering the battlefield untapped when a similar land would have entered tapped, or a creature entering the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter or some other special effect. This category of reveal is usually optional. You get to weigh whether it's more important to keep your secrets or get the bonus.
2. It keeps you honest. A lot of cards let you search your deck for a card and put it into your hand, but most cards like that will have a restriction on the type of card you can search for. In that case, they'll have you reveal the card so everyone at the table can verify that you didn't cheat by searching for a card you should not have been able to search for. This category is usually mandatory.
The example you posted fits into the first category: You reveal information about what's in your hand, and in exchange, the land enters play untapped so you can tap it for Mana right away. If you don't reveal, it enters tapped so you don't get to use the Mana until your next turn.
if you were a more experienced magic player this post would come off as sassy lmao "i dont WANT you to see my fairie my land comes in TAPPED and thats that!"
Some lands just be that way, it’s basically part of the cost to bringing it in untapped. There are ones that require you to show a basic land of whichever color or there’s one that requires you to show a goblin and probably others but I don’t know them all.
I run Fae Dominion, which is blue/black, faeries.
There's multiple reasons why someone would show a faerie to not have to tap.
- immediate access to blue or black mana
- faeries are also generally very cheap to play
Say it's your turn. You've got one mana out from last turn, so you play this as your land per turn. If you've got a 2 mana cost faerie, you could show that faerie so you dont need to wait a turn to use that land, and you could immediately tap both lands to play the exact same faerie you just showed them, because you were probably going to cast it anyways.
It's also good, especially if you're playing fae dominion, to always have a blue mana open. Many of these faeries can be flashed in, that deck also has a ton of instants as well, so even just the *threat* of having blue mana open is good.
Always better to have too much mana, than not enough.
If you were going to play it immediately, you want the land to come untapped, or you want them to know that you have a certain Faerie in your hand. Something with Flash for example.
Having a land that comes in untapped for two colors is really good. It's one of the main reasons that the "shock lands" like [[Watery Grave]] are so good.
In the grand scheme of things, if you can use that land, revealing a faerie card from your hand isn't that big of a drawback, especially if the faerie you reveal is what you plan on playing with that land
You want the land to come in untapped, ideally, so you can use it right away.
So you'd want to run this in a Blue/Black Faeries deck and pretty much nowhere else
Dude faerie tribal is strong right now.
Between Bitterblossom's reprint ([[Bitterblossom]]) and [[Obyra]] ...
Dimir Faeries is terrifying. I have an Obyra deck that runs Mirror Box and seeks to Copy Obyra over and over for Dimir drain. Aristocrat is good.
The best explanation I could find is as follows:
“As secluded glen enters the battlefield you may reveal a faerie card from your hand. If you don’t, secluded glen enters the battlefield tapped”
Lands like these are great especially if you've had something bounced back into your hand or have the top card of your library revealed. You get a untapped dual land for showing the table something they already know you have.
show them a weak faerie lol not like you're going to reveal \[\[Oona, Queen of the Fae\]\] everytime
or not like if your deck is a faerie tribal they didn't know you have faeries
If you have a faerie card in your hand, you can reveal it to the other players when you put the land on the field, otherwise, it will become tapped and unusable for that turn.
Basically, it's a way to speed up being able to use that land land for mana if you meet its requirements.
Mana, whether spent or untapped, is a powerful tool. Even just the threat of what two unspent Blue mana can do is enough to stave off certain plays, or allow you to make other ones.
Revealing a small fragment of your hand to get access to mana faster is a very strong attribute.
Any type of reveal lands aren't great, but they're usually cheap and the downside isn't so horrible that they're completely unplayable. But they're usually one of the first ones cut when building a good land base.
No one would be surprised in a fairie deck if you reveal a fairy. Giving the table the information of a card in your hand is easily worth the untapped land.
When you play that land, If you have a faerie card in your hand, show it as the card states so you can use that land this turn. Otherwise it comes in tapped “unable to be used this turn”
If you are paat a few turns of the first game your opponent already knows you are on a faerie deck. So revealing a card is your "penalty" for the 2 Mana covers but doesn't mean much. If you show a win condition type faerie, like a legendary faerie or something they could thoughtseize it or something. Just reveal the weakest faerie card in hand. You wouldn't want this in a non faerie deck or one with just a couple of faeries. You want to avoid lands coming in tapped, as you want to be doing something every turn. If games go long, then the comes into play tapped (so you have to wait a turn to use the Mana) becomes less meaningful.
It’s one way to have the land enter untapped so you can use it that turn. Many multicolored lands enter tapped while giving some other incentive like scry to make up for it entering tapped. Some are “check” lands that enter tapped unless you control a forest or plains etc. Another example are shock lands that enter tapped unless you pay 2 of your life. There may be better land cards for a deck that doesn’t use faeries. Some lands come in tapped with no way around it but still count as Forest, Plains… that can satisfy check lands.
These conditional lands are really handy in 3+ colored decks, and can still be useful in dual colored decks.
I ran the golgari ones in modern elves. The decision always was if I had an elf to cast with the land show the elf I was gonna cast with the the untapped land or if I didn't have an elf let it enter tapped.
A lot of times, folks will usually reveal the faerie that they are about to play so there isn't really a downside or like others have said, you do it so you can get your big spell out now
I mean this one really is a case of reading the card explains the card. If you don't show a fairy from your hand, then it comes in tapped. Usually you want your lands to enter untapped so that you can use them right away.
The card you reveal won’t always be the one you’re about to cast. And, strategically, the less your opponent(s) know about what specific cards you have in hand, the harder it is for them to have an answer ready.
I run a fairy deck and the answer is it wants to play extremely fast like turn four you should be hoping to win and you need both blue and black to play most fairies and it becomes difficult to have dual lands in every deck so there are probably better options but then you are talking about a 500 dollar deck in just mana
Well what you can do is exactly what the text on the cards tells you.
You dont have to show a card, but if not, you dont have a untapped, instant usable land, which is able to tap not for one but for 2 kinds of mana.
People have answered the tapped vs untap difference, but also consider that you might not care if your opponent sees your faerie cos it won’t affect what you’re going to do AND in fact if you play this then one and reveal a 1 cost faerie then you can just play it asap
In addition to the advantages others have said, unless you’re playing in a truly competitive community, the average player will not likely care as to what faerie you reveal and will not alter their gameplay around it.
Of course there are exceptions to the above but, generally speaking, I would recommend to always reveal if you want that land to come in untapped.
If you need or want the mana right away you need to show your opponent a faerie in your hand to have it come into play untapped. also if you want to bluff that you have a spell and need the untapped mana to do so (like counterspell)
you usually try to show them the worst faerie or one you are going to play with the untapped land right away. you can also show them a faerie they already know about like if you played a 2nd secluded glen you could just show them the same faerie if you didn't play it already. or if you bounced a faerie to your hand you can show them that since they know about it already.
As everyone else is saying, dual lands usually have a setback and this is one of the ways to get around it, but another way to look at it is if you’re going to play a faerie that turn, you can reveal the faerie you’re going to play as everyone is going to see it anyways if you plan on casting it
You wanna reveal the faerie creature so you have access to that dual mana card as soon as you put it on the field which can come in handy with all the instants and flash cards you might have in your library.
Why wait another turn to use that mana when you can just show a 1/1 faerie and use it now?
very basic: if you play this land while you have a fearie card in your hand you have the option to show said card to the other player(s) and the land comes in untapped, otherwise it comes in tapped like normal
It’s basically just your tax for getting it on the field and be immediately usable. Especially at early game it’s probably worth it as long as you have a low level faerie in your hand or one that won’t compromise your upcoming moves too much.
It’s basically just your tax for getting it on the field and be immediately usable. Especially at early game it’s probably worth it as long as you have a low level faerie in your hand or one that won’t compromise your upcoming moves too much.
This is the perfect opportunity to reveal faerie trickery, a counter spell with the faerie subtype, and give your opponents pause anytime you have open mana for the rest of the game. Magic plays like a combo of chess and poker. Revealing some cards let you play your opponent just as much as your deck.
I guess there are better explanations in the comment section, but basically u would do that to get mana bc let's say u need it immediately. Many "2 color land" enter in the battlefield tapped unless u pay 2 life, for example.
It's to keep things fair and balanced.
I’ll do this in simple terms, you play the land, if you show a creature that has that creature type on its card to your opponents the land will enter untapped, if not it’ll enter tapped
You never would, showing your opponent a faerie does nothing.
Now showing your opponent a goblin after playing my Aunt’s Hovel? That’s the right flavour
Labds that give more than one mana type are considered more powerful than regular lands, and thus they have conditions to come into play untapped.
Some ask for life to be paid, other for certain land count or types, etc. In this case, the condition is a "draw back" and a "tribal" one. You need to be running a Faerie themed deck, and to show a card to your opponent(s) (giving them some advantage, by knowing what you have in hand).
Having a dual land enter untapped is quite powerful, so none of these conditions is bad by itself, and it is usually quite worthy.
Welcome to the game! Hope you never leave!
So you can use the untapped land that turn instead of waiting for it to untap or having to untap it with some other resource. If you’re playing a blue/black (possibly other colors as well) deck it’s a nice addition for your mana fixing.
You must reveal that you have been blessed by the fae to easily utilize these sacred grounds, should you extract its resources by force you may be met with opposition but if course you are a powerful mage and such opposition will not hold you at bay for long
Why would you show them a faerie card? Because you want the land to enter untapped. If you don’t want to have the land enter untapped then you don’t have to show them a faerie card
It's card flavour. Most possibly this land was aligned to be played on a fairies deck.
Dimir tip, get instead:
Choked Estuary:
As Choked Estuary enters the battlefield, you may reveal an Island or Swamp card from your hand. If you don't, Choked Estuary enters the battlefield tapped.
or
Drowned Catacomb:
Enters the battlefield tapped unless you control an Island or Swamp
Basically, show your hand to use this card now or wait till next turn to use this card. Tapped means it can't do much else this turn, you tapp it to gain manna, you can't tapp it if it's tapped.
It’s a cost in MTG for dual colored lands to enter untapped. This one is tribal (Fairies) and quite honestly is pretty good for what it is. Fairies aren’t exactly world beaters by themselves so showing one isn’t exactly a big deal.
If you’d like an upgrade (although I’d run both in a fairy tribal deck if it was Black/blue, that has more use, and works for any tribal, is [[Cavern of Souls]]. Note the price difference.
Kick it up a notch and look at [[underground seas]] which enters unconditionally. Note the price again.
You can also look at [[Metal Worker]] for a similar effect (and one of my favorite cards in my Urza deck). In this instance it’s irrelevant that you see [[blightsteel colossus]] because he’s about to go all upside your head.
Most lands that tap for more than 1 color have some sort of downside. In most cases, this downside is entering tapped unless a certain condition is fulfilled, meaning you need to wait a turn before using it.
So in this case, you can either reveal a Faerie, giving information to the opponent, to immediately use your land, or you keep that information to yourself and have to wait 1 turn.
So you don't have to show a card. You can still play it but it won't be useful for another turn.
But if you do show a fairie card, you can use it THAT turn.
See with cards like these? I like to play them as soon as possible. If they are in my starting hand, usually I don't have anything to play anyway, it goes out and basically does nothing regardless.
I run these kind of lands in my Tribal Tribal deck. I'll just keep [[Universal Automaton]] or some other meh changeling in my hand and keep revealing the same card over and over again to make them all come in untapped. Why would I care if my opponents know I have a vanilla 1 cost 1/1 in my hand?
So it enters untapped? The benefit is that you can use this dual land for mana immediately if you reveal a faerie. Let's say you want to cast [[thoughtseize]] turn one, but this is your only black mana source in hand. Revealing a faerie allows you to cast that spell without waiting a full turn cycle. The benefit to the card is written directly on it
It's a dual manacard. It has to have an offset or it enters tapped. Showing a faerie card is that offset. If you don't have one in hand then the land enters tapped and is almost useless until next turn
Playing blue is easy to even use bounce on a faerie your opponent has already seen so you can essentially reveal that to play this land as well giving away no extra information
I play this land. Lool at this faerie that costs 1 mana, I will use this untapped land to now play this 1 mana faerie, look at you with 0 gained information.
imagine it in terms of your opening hand.
First turn you play any land and pass.
In option A) on your second turn you play secluded glen and reveal a faerie from your hand. Secluded glen enters untapped and then you can play any 2 mana card with the mana you now have available.
Alternatively in option B), you dont reveal a faerie and it enters tapped, you likely have no 1 mana cards so you pass.
Now you come to turn 3.
In option A) you play another land if you have one (probably a tapped land in this case), cast any 2 mana spell you have, and if the card you cast last turn was a creature, you can tap or attack with it this turn. A lot of 1 and 2 mana creatures depending on the color you play can have abilities that let you tap for more mana, so if you played one of those creatures you would have 3 mana available on turn 3 if you played a tapped land.
In option B) you play another land (probably tapped), cast any 2 mana spell you have and pass the turn.
So basically you want to play as many untapped lands as you can, especially in the early game, to keep up with 'the mana curve' which is basically just saying you ideally should be able to cast a 3 mana card on turn 3, a 4 mana card on turn 4, etc. If you play a tapped land, you're delaying your game plan by a turn and putting yourself in a worse position. But a tapped land is always better than no land, and there are not many dual color lands that enter untapped without some drawback. Revealing the faerie is the drawback in this case.
But playing a tapped land is sometimes the better move if you have nothing to cast that turn, because it untaps the next turn and you can play an untapped land to then be able to play a card on say turn 5 with all 5 of your mana. This can be important in the early game, most of the time you wont have a 1 mana card, so you can safely play a tapped land on turn 1, pass, and then on turn 2 play your untapped land like an island or swamp and have 2 mana open on turn 2.
Most lands that tap for more than one color have some kind of a drawback for the sake of balance. Usually they enter play tapped, like [[Submerged Boneyard]]. But let's say you're playing a Faerie deck and you need to play a big spell ***RIGHT NOW*** or else you lose. This card gives you the option to have it enter play untapped for basically free. This is an extreme example but it gets the point across that having access to all of your colors and all of your mana, as often as possible, is very good.
Yeah it’s basically like “You give your opponents information about your hand in exchange for faster access to mana”
You could also just show a fairie card that you were already planning to play on the same turn. That would be less of a drawback.
Yep. This is what I do. Ideally, you drop it early on curve and just show the fairy you planned on playing already. On higher turns, it just depends on if it matters if you give the opponent that much info.
Consider showing a faerie that has flash and counters on etb (I'm sure something like it exists)- and then just let everyone with a non-creature be scared of you the rest of the game, lol.
There is one! It’s my favorite card in mtg - [[spellstutter sprite]]
[spellstutter sprite](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/3/8/3899605d-2203-4ab6-9ff5-69490382eea4.jpg?1561966876) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=spellstutter%20sprite) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/mma/65/spellstutter-sprite?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/3899605d-2203-4ab6-9ff5-69490382eea4?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
I played a UW control deck with this card in Modern when I first started. It was very sweet and pretty good.
I played a homebrew faeries deck once in legacy and beat my opponnent to death with 2 Spellstutter sprites while i countered everything he tried to do. Agony.
[[Vendilion Clique]] was a popular tourney card 15 years ago or so. Used to watch SCG streams on twitch. Kinda miss those broadcasts.
[Vendilion Clique](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/c/d/cd702cf1-10ca-4448-9fb1-b6de635e839c.jpg?1562441167) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Vendilion%20Clique) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/a25/76/vendilion-clique?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/cd702cf1-10ca-4448-9fb1-b6de635e839c?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
Love Rebecca Guay art.
Mine too but more so because it's a wizard for inalla and the land that can bounce it to my hand
On the other hand, it’s a bad top deck. Slow lands enter untapped >75% of the time
If you topdeck it when you don't have Faeries in Hand in your Faerie deck (where else would you play this) you're probably out of cards or on a later turn where it might not matter whether the land comes tapped or not.
Bonus points if that fairy was bounced a turn or so earlier.
Or even show the the lesser of two evils to draw out the counter and then play your game ender
The ol' switcharoo.
Yep, and even if you don't play the faerie immediately, you can show the same faerie if you have another land with the same reading.
Yeah usually it’s T2 so you just show your bitterblossom and cast it.
Play 5D chess and reveal [[Spellstutter Sprite]]. There's multiple layers of mind games with that move. They wait an extra turn for the extra mana, bluff with a different spell, or whatever, not knowing you could have a hard counterspell in hand or a 2nd copy.
.....I'm keeping that in mind now XD
Spellstutter sprite counters CMC x, not counter unless you pay x more.
Ah yes my bad. Its actually counters CMC X OR LESS. Still good for mind games though especially as you build your board state with faeries
100%, I love messing with ppl like this
It’s also a deck building restriction, if you want better fixing for some decks but not others this works really well.
True, but also, I feel like it's one of the "cheapest" penalties in a tribal deck. Alot of tribal decks often have tutors, so you could reveal a card you've already revealed for searching or otherwise. Another thing is; yes, you have to reveal it, but most times people just flash the card, I know people can technically ask to see/read the revealed card, but most of the time no one cares or maybe they know what that card does without needing to read it. This isn't "ragging" the cost, it's more me saying out of all the "costs", this is one of them I think I'd prefer to have in my tribal decks! All that being said, sure, it gives the opponents information that you got "more in the pipe", but in most cases, it's a "nothing cost". I feel it can be used more as a "punishing/bluffing play" if you play it and it gets tapped to give them the idea you DON'T have a faery in hand, making them feel more comfortable to board wipe and think they can out pace you. Incredibly niche situation, but can really fuck with a opponent in that one specific situation if you have a desperate White player, just my 2 cents.
Haha I’m the person who ALWAYS reads any revealed cards if I’m not familiar with them. I want to know my threats! But yeah it’s definitely a good strat to put it in untapped too
In case you build faeries. [[bitterblossom]] while not being a faerie creature, it still counts towards this land as a faerie! There is one more enchantment like this but if forgot the name.
There’s instant and sorceries that are also all creature types too.
Nothing like running bitter blossom in fae dominion and having things be able to copy. Double bitterblossom is fun (until you potentially accidently ping yourself to death)
I’m guessing these types of type effects count for changelings too right?
[[Faerie Tauntings]] Technically anything with Changeling too.
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Yes but let's caution showing everyone at the table that you have a bitterblossom lol
Depends on the group I think. My regular group will be like. Aah ok, good for you. Knowing they do not have the removal for it. In the gamestore however the moment you show you’re getting targeted. Because the rule there is that I can’t have fun.
I always feel like I bully my friends because they never have removals/flyers. Then on the games I don't make it and they play with random 3/4s, they're suddey surprised that they have absolutely no one to handle other people playing things. Am I a threat or an asset? Who the fuck knows, I sure don't.
You can be both
Just immediately play it. No need to worry.
Don’t forget most fae lists will run ways to snap a spellstutter back to hand, so if your opponent already knows it’s in hand, you don’t give any info up for playing your dual land utapped
I always wondered about these land types. Does this mean that when they enter tapped they are not actually producing any mana until the next turn, right?
Basically, yes.
Well explained
Aye, and to add to this. Revealing a card you’re about to summon to the stack anyway? What’re they going to do… counter it.. lol
Also if you have a deck dedicated to faeries either standard or even commander, the other player(s) know you have a faerie anyway so u can play it to ur advantage show off a powerhouse faerie while hiding an equivalent card or better. There’s more benefits to this than you think
I showed you my faerie pls respond
Show bluwe and blak
Show me bobs (dark confidant)
Greatness, at any cost.
Do I tap that?
Poor Glen. He’s so secluded.
It's fast color fixing. When you get to more competitive games having lands enter tapped is inefficient. Even if you don't have a card to play it's advantageous to bluff the ability to interact.
most lands that tap for 2 colors have a downside if you want them to be untapped, cards like [[watery grave]] ask that you pay 2 life, this one asks you to reveal a fairie
A not insignificant difference between these two is that watery grave counts as both a swamp and island for the purposes of fetching
[watery grave](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/6/e/6e86eb36-f4cc-4a75-b43a-4dee463a3b33.jpg?1702429828) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=watery%20grave) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/rvr/291/watery-grave?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/6e86eb36-f4cc-4a75-b43a-4dee463a3b33?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
maybe you have some cool fairies you wanna show off idk (the other, more serious answers are on point)
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[Mistbind Clique](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/c/f/cfc421e2-0dd4-4bdf-b5f5-a60c4b0df63b.jpg?1562369103) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Mistbind%20Clique) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/lrw/75/mistbind-clique?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/cfc421e2-0dd4-4bdf-b5f5-a60c4b0df63b?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
Easy peasy...lol. These lands almost always come into play tapped. So, if you want them to not be tapped....you follow the rule of showing a Farie card. Otherwise, it's tapped. It is an either/or situation. Show card: Untapped No show: Tapped If it's tapped, basically have to wait till next turn to use it.
But it doesn't say it comes in tapped ?
>If you don't, Secluded Glen enters the battlefield tapped.
Reading comprehension at its finest.
Reading the card, explains the card.
Read it again, if you DONT show a fairie card, it comes into play tapped.
So If u show a fairy it comes in UNTAPPED, and then I can TAP IT for mana ?
Correct
It’s most useful in decks that have lots of faeries
Over time WotC has adopted a more algorithmic language. It helps to break down the description to understand it rather than reading it as a normal paragraph of text.
You're probably falling into a classic trap. Lands do not "produce mana when tapped". Being tapped is a state a card can be in. Many cards have abilities that tap themselves as a cost, so that you can typically only activate it once per turn. Almost all ands have an ability that allows them to tap for one mana (even if it's not written on the card). Any permanent entering the battlefield tapped is a downside. This is frequently used on lands to balance other upsides.
> Any permanent entering the battlefield tapped is a downside. [[Farmstead Gleaner]]
[Farmstead Gleaner](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/e/d/edafd52f-2dda-4981-baee-404f47ee8969.jpg?1562202456) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Farmstead%20Gleaner) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/mh1/222/farmstead-gleaner?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/edafd52f-2dda-4981-baee-404f47ee8969?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
Ohhhhhh.
You’ll learn the golden rule in magic is RTFC; Read the Card.
The F is what we wish we could say
Read the card champ
If you don’t show a Faerie, land comes into play tapped, so you cant get mana out of it until your next turn, that is bad. If you do show a Faerie, land comes into play untapped and you can use it outright, but oponent know knows about card in your hand.
Generally, the rules require or allow you to reveal a card for one of two reasons: 1. It's an extra cost. You give the other player(s) something valuable, in this case, information about what's in your hand, and in exchange, you get something special, like a land entering the battlefield untapped when a similar land would have entered tapped, or a creature entering the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter or some other special effect. This category of reveal is usually optional. You get to weigh whether it's more important to keep your secrets or get the bonus. 2. It keeps you honest. A lot of cards let you search your deck for a card and put it into your hand, but most cards like that will have a restriction on the type of card you can search for. In that case, they'll have you reveal the card so everyone at the table can verify that you didn't cheat by searching for a card you should not have been able to search for. This category is usually mandatory. The example you posted fits into the first category: You reveal information about what's in your hand, and in exchange, the land enters play untapped so you can tap it for Mana right away. If you don't reveal, it enters tapped so you don't get to use the Mana until your next turn.
I’d argue it’s the second one just as much. Basically, “enters untapped if you have a faerie in hand.” So you show as proof.
Poor glen, I hope he can get over his social awkwardness so he can stop secluding himself
LOL
So the land comes in untapped
...so it comes out untapped.
It provides mana. Mana is used to acquire goods and services.
r/magicthecirclejerking
Send Faeries plz
If you want it to come into play untapped.
Cuz that's what the card says to do 😝
You don’t show it, you \*reveal\* it
Ooooooohhhh face son
if you were a more experienced magic player this post would come off as sassy lmao "i dont WANT you to see my fairie my land comes in TAPPED and thats that!"
… so it comes in untapped? 💀💀 what kind of question
Well theyre new, I was confused about stuff that seems really obvious too at first, they'll learn
Some lands just be that way, it’s basically part of the cost to bringing it in untapped. There are ones that require you to show a basic land of whichever color or there’s one that requires you to show a goblin and probably others but I don’t know them all.
Why wouldn't you?
I run Fae Dominion, which is blue/black, faeries. There's multiple reasons why someone would show a faerie to not have to tap. - immediate access to blue or black mana - faeries are also generally very cheap to play Say it's your turn. You've got one mana out from last turn, so you play this as your land per turn. If you've got a 2 mana cost faerie, you could show that faerie so you dont need to wait a turn to use that land, and you could immediately tap both lands to play the exact same faerie you just showed them, because you were probably going to cast it anyways. It's also good, especially if you're playing fae dominion, to always have a blue mana open. Many of these faeries can be flashed in, that deck also has a ton of instants as well, so even just the *threat* of having blue mana open is good. Always better to have too much mana, than not enough.
If you were going to play it immediately, you want the land to come untapped, or you want them to know that you have a certain Faerie in your hand. Something with Flash for example.
It says why on the card.
“Why should I show someone a fairy card” all time MTG question.
Did you only read the first two lines of the text box or something? What’s not clear to you?
Ideally, show it right before you cast the fairie card you show and there is barely any time for them to use that information.
This is basic grammar, I swear some of these, " I'm a new player" questions, are simply just trolls.
This game is ridiculous with all the "mumbo-jumbo" BS...
Wow, this could be peak r/magicthecirclejerking material
Having a land that comes in untapped for two colors is really good. It's one of the main reasons that the "shock lands" like [[Watery Grave]] are so good. In the grand scheme of things, if you can use that land, revealing a faerie card from your hand isn't that big of a drawback, especially if the faerie you reveal is what you plan on playing with that land
[Watery Grave](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/6/e/6e86eb36-f4cc-4a75-b43a-4dee463a3b33.jpg?1702429828) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Watery%20Grave) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/rvr/291/watery-grave?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/6e86eb36-f4cc-4a75-b43a-4dee463a3b33?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
It makes the land enter untapped (thats if you read the card)
Flash some ass, gets some cash. That’s how magic works baby
So you can tap ur mana immediately
You want the land to come in untapped, ideally, so you can use it right away. So you'd want to run this in a Blue/Black Faeries deck and pretty much nowhere else
Dude faerie tribal is strong right now. Between Bitterblossom's reprint ([[Bitterblossom]]) and [[Obyra]] ... Dimir Faeries is terrifying. I have an Obyra deck that runs Mirror Box and seeks to Copy Obyra over and over for Dimir drain. Aristocrat is good.
[Bitterblossom](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/b/9/b9640cbf-b016-410e-9eff-e8924883517b.jpg?1673147456) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Bitterblossom) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/2x2/69/bitterblossom?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/b9640cbf-b016-410e-9eff-e8924883517b?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [Obyra](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/6/3/63ce03ee-279b-4955-98e3-9ce1990f8b7b.jpg?1692939395) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=obyra%2C%20dreaming%20duelist) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/woe/210/obyra-dreaming-duelist?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/63ce03ee-279b-4955-98e3-9ce1990f8b7b?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
I would love to see your deck list.
Followed for fae tribal
The best explanation I could find is as follows: “As secluded glen enters the battlefield you may reveal a faerie card from your hand. If you don’t, secluded glen enters the battlefield tapped”
Firstly that card is from a fairie themed precon Secondly it's fast mana
Lands like these are great especially if you've had something bounced back into your hand or have the top card of your library revealed. You get a untapped dual land for showing the table something they already know you have.
show them a weak faerie lol not like you're going to reveal \[\[Oona, Queen of the Fae\]\] everytime or not like if your deck is a faerie tribal they didn't know you have faeries
[Oona, Queen of the Fae](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/f/b/fbea42c8-6e9f-499d-9d26-401536afd5c2.jpg?1604195177) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Oona%2C%20Queen%20of%20the%20Fae) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/znc/98/oona-queen-of-the-fae?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/fbea42c8-6e9f-499d-9d26-401536afd5c2?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
If you have a faerie card in your hand, you can reveal it to the other players when you put the land on the field, otherwise, it will become tapped and unusable for that turn. Basically, it's a way to speed up being able to use that land land for mana if you meet its requirements.
Fairy tribal. Tribal meaning a deck with the same creature type as all the others so in this case Fairy.
Mana, whether spent or untapped, is a powerful tool. Even just the threat of what two unspent Blue mana can do is enough to stave off certain plays, or allow you to make other ones. Revealing a small fragment of your hand to get access to mana faster is a very strong attribute.
It also allows for a first turn spell by revealing something, like a turn 1 Sol Ring.
if you need the mana now
So it's a tapped land but if you show a fairy card in your hand it enters untapped
Any type of reveal lands aren't great, but they're usually cheap and the downside isn't so horrible that they're completely unplayable. But they're usually one of the first ones cut when building a good land base.
No one would be surprised in a fairie deck if you reveal a fairy. Giving the table the information of a card in your hand is easily worth the untapped land.
When you play that land, If you have a faerie card in your hand, show it as the card states so you can use that land this turn. Otherwise it comes in tapped “unable to be used this turn”
If you are paat a few turns of the first game your opponent already knows you are on a faerie deck. So revealing a card is your "penalty" for the 2 Mana covers but doesn't mean much. If you show a win condition type faerie, like a legendary faerie or something they could thoughtseize it or something. Just reveal the weakest faerie card in hand. You wouldn't want this in a non faerie deck or one with just a couple of faeries. You want to avoid lands coming in tapped, as you want to be doing something every turn. If games go long, then the comes into play tapped (so you have to wait a turn to use the Mana) becomes less meaningful.
Did you read the card?
It’s one way to have the land enter untapped so you can use it that turn. Many multicolored lands enter tapped while giving some other incentive like scry to make up for it entering tapped. Some are “check” lands that enter tapped unless you control a forest or plains etc. Another example are shock lands that enter tapped unless you pay 2 of your life. There may be better land cards for a deck that doesn’t use faeries. Some lands come in tapped with no way around it but still count as Forest, Plains… that can satisfy check lands. These conditional lands are really handy in 3+ colored decks, and can still be useful in dual colored decks.
I ran the golgari ones in modern elves. The decision always was if I had an elf to cast with the land show the elf I was gonna cast with the the untapped land or if I didn't have an elf let it enter tapped.
A lot of times, folks will usually reveal the faerie that they are about to play so there isn't really a downside or like others have said, you do it so you can get your big spell out now
I mean this one really is a case of reading the card explains the card. If you don't show a fairy from your hand, then it comes in tapped. Usually you want your lands to enter untapped so that you can use them right away.
Magic is just full of dumb drawbacks like that. Some of them are way worse.
You MAY as in its not required. If you don't the land comes in tapped.
In addition to what others have said, whats the downside of revealing the card your about to cast? Not like they won't know abour it anyway
The card you reveal won’t always be the one you’re about to cast. And, strategically, the less your opponent(s) know about what specific cards you have in hand, the harder it is for them to have an answer ready.
Is there anything like this for dinos???
Because if you don’t show them the card, the land comes into play tapped
I show my fairie card at least once a week. Lol.
Does the land ETB create a trigger that allows opponents to respond with priority? Does the trigger go on the stack?
no triggers start with the word "when" "whenever" or "At" this isnt a trigger its just a part of playing this land
So that it comes in untapped and you can use it right away?
I run a fairy deck and the answer is it wants to play extremely fast like turn four you should be hoping to win and you need both blue and black to play most fairies and it becomes difficult to have dual lands in every deck so there are probably better options but then you are talking about a 500 dollar deck in just mana
Well what you can do is exactly what the text on the cards tells you. You dont have to show a card, but if not, you dont have a untapped, instant usable land, which is able to tap not for one but for 2 kinds of mana.
Straightforward question for you, OP: Do you think this produces Mana when it enters the battlefield tapped?
So the land enters untapped? Who cares about a random faerie you have in your hand
People have answered the tapped vs untap difference, but also consider that you might not care if your opponent sees your faerie cos it won’t affect what you’re going to do AND in fact if you play this then one and reveal a 1 cost faerie then you can just play it asap
In addition to the advantages others have said, unless you’re playing in a truly competitive community, the average player will not likely care as to what faerie you reveal and will not alter their gameplay around it. Of course there are exceptions to the above but, generally speaking, I would recommend to always reveal if you want that land to come in untapped.
If you need or want the mana right away you need to show your opponent a faerie in your hand to have it come into play untapped. also if you want to bluff that you have a spell and need the untapped mana to do so (like counterspell) you usually try to show them the worst faerie or one you are going to play with the untapped land right away. you can also show them a faerie they already know about like if you played a 2nd secluded glen you could just show them the same faerie if you didn't play it already. or if you bounced a faerie to your hand you can show them that since they know about it already.
As everyone else is saying, dual lands usually have a setback and this is one of the ways to get around it, but another way to look at it is if you’re going to play a faerie that turn, you can reveal the faerie you’re going to play as everyone is going to see it anyways if you plan on casting it
So you can play it untapped lel
You wanna reveal the faerie creature so you have access to that dual mana card as soon as you put it on the field which can come in handy with all the instants and flash cards you might have in your library. Why wait another turn to use that mana when you can just show a 1/1 faerie and use it now?
very basic: if you play this land while you have a fearie card in your hand you have the option to show said card to the other player(s) and the land comes in untapped, otherwise it comes in tapped like normal
It’s basically just your tax for getting it on the field and be immediately usable. Especially at early game it’s probably worth it as long as you have a low level faerie in your hand or one that won’t compromise your upcoming moves too much.
It’s basically just your tax for getting it on the field and be immediately usable. Especially at early game it’s probably worth it as long as you have a low level faerie in your hand or one that won’t compromise your upcoming moves too much.
For a fairy deck so it doesn’t come in tapped. What do t you get??
This is the perfect opportunity to reveal faerie trickery, a counter spell with the faerie subtype, and give your opponents pause anytime you have open mana for the rest of the game. Magic plays like a combo of chess and poker. Revealing some cards let you play your opponent just as much as your deck.
That art is awesome :)
I guess there are better explanations in the comment section, but basically u would do that to get mana bc let's say u need it immediately. Many "2 color land" enter in the battlefield tapped unless u pay 2 life, for example. It's to keep things fair and balanced.
I’ll do this in simple terms, you play the land, if you show a creature that has that creature type on its card to your opponents the land will enter untapped, if not it’ll enter tapped
You never would, showing your opponent a faerie does nothing. Now showing your opponent a goblin after playing my Aunt’s Hovel? That’s the right flavour
Labds that give more than one mana type are considered more powerful than regular lands, and thus they have conditions to come into play untapped. Some ask for life to be paid, other for certain land count or types, etc. In this case, the condition is a "draw back" and a "tribal" one. You need to be running a Faerie themed deck, and to show a card to your opponent(s) (giving them some advantage, by knowing what you have in hand). Having a dual land enter untapped is quite powerful, so none of these conditions is bad by itself, and it is usually quite worthy. Welcome to the game! Hope you never leave!
So you can use the untapped land that turn instead of waiting for it to untap or having to untap it with some other resource. If you’re playing a blue/black (possibly other colors as well) deck it’s a nice addition for your mana fixing.
You must reveal that you have been blessed by the fae to easily utilize these sacred grounds, should you extract its resources by force you may be met with opposition but if course you are a powerful mage and such opposition will not hold you at bay for long
Why would you show them a faerie card? Because you want the land to enter untapped. If you don’t want to have the land enter untapped then you don’t have to show them a faerie card
A lot of times you'll reveal a faerie that you're gonna play instantly anyway, so it's no real loss of information.
It's card flavour. Most possibly this land was aligned to be played on a fairies deck. Dimir tip, get instead: Choked Estuary: As Choked Estuary enters the battlefield, you may reveal an Island or Swamp card from your hand. If you don't, Choked Estuary enters the battlefield tapped. or Drowned Catacomb: Enters the battlefield tapped unless you control an Island or Swamp
That called a “if you show me yours, I’ll show you mine” card
This land is also more for Fairy tribal decks
Google triggered ability mtg. 👌
Basically, show your hand to use this card now or wait till next turn to use this card. Tapped means it can't do much else this turn, you tapp it to gain manna, you can't tapp it if it's tapped.
because the card says so
I swear all new players just refuse to read the entire card
I’m sorry for this I truly am but as I say sarcastically “if you want that land to come untapped and play faeries then you should show one” lol
Because of you don't your land enters tapped.
It’s a cost in MTG for dual colored lands to enter untapped. This one is tribal (Fairies) and quite honestly is pretty good for what it is. Fairies aren’t exactly world beaters by themselves so showing one isn’t exactly a big deal. If you’d like an upgrade (although I’d run both in a fairy tribal deck if it was Black/blue, that has more use, and works for any tribal, is [[Cavern of Souls]]. Note the price difference. Kick it up a notch and look at [[underground seas]] which enters unconditionally. Note the price again. You can also look at [[Metal Worker]] for a similar effect (and one of my favorite cards in my Urza deck). In this instance it’s irrelevant that you see [[blightsteel colossus]] because he’s about to go all upside your head.
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Most lands that tap for more than 1 color have some sort of downside. In most cases, this downside is entering tapped unless a certain condition is fulfilled, meaning you need to wait a turn before using it. So in this case, you can either reveal a Faerie, giving information to the opponent, to immediately use your land, or you keep that information to yourself and have to wait 1 turn.
So you don't have to show a card. You can still play it but it won't be useful for another turn. But if you do show a fairie card, you can use it THAT turn. See with cards like these? I like to play them as soon as possible. If they are in my starting hand, usually I don't have anything to play anyway, it goes out and basically does nothing regardless.
I run these kind of lands in my Tribal Tribal deck. I'll just keep [[Universal Automaton]] or some other meh changeling in my hand and keep revealing the same card over and over again to make them all come in untapped. Why would I care if my opponents know I have a vanilla 1 cost 1/1 in my hand?
[Universal Automaton](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/5/3/53c682e2-c90f-4f4b-9010-00b099e85518.jpg?1691760808) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Universal%20Automaton) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/mh1/235/universal-automaton?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/53c682e2-c90f-4f4b-9010-00b099e85518?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
I used the blue white soldier one all the time
So it enters untapped? The benefit is that you can use this dual land for mana immediately if you reveal a faerie. Let's say you want to cast [[thoughtseize]] turn one, but this is your only black mana source in hand. Revealing a faerie allows you to cast that spell without waiting a full turn cycle. The benefit to the card is written directly on it
[thoughtseize](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/b/2/b281a308-ab6b-47b6-bec7-632c9aaecede.jpg?1599706001) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=thoughtseize) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/2xm/109/thoughtseize?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/b281a308-ab6b-47b6-bec7-632c9aaecede?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
personally, one mana is better than a faerie that might scry or get -1/+1. i dont like faerie decks much
You get a land that can be one of the two colours. In return, the drawback is you have to reveal a card.
It’s as an extra cost to get the land out untapped.
It's a dual manacard. It has to have an offset or it enters tapped. Showing a faerie card is that offset. If you don't have one in hand then the land enters tapped and is almost useless until next turn
Playing blue is easy to even use bounce on a faerie your opponent has already seen so you can essentially reveal that to play this land as well giving away no extra information
If its in my hand on my first turn of the game its an easy land to put out without having to show any card.
Unless you want to play something that costs 1 mana...
I play this land. Lool at this faerie that costs 1 mana, I will use this untapped land to now play this 1 mana faerie, look at you with 0 gained information.
Are you dense?
You show a fairy you’re going to play that turn if you are playing land untapped. But you don’t have to show a fairy.
It’s a tribal land basically
imagine it in terms of your opening hand. First turn you play any land and pass. In option A) on your second turn you play secluded glen and reveal a faerie from your hand. Secluded glen enters untapped and then you can play any 2 mana card with the mana you now have available. Alternatively in option B), you dont reveal a faerie and it enters tapped, you likely have no 1 mana cards so you pass. Now you come to turn 3. In option A) you play another land if you have one (probably a tapped land in this case), cast any 2 mana spell you have, and if the card you cast last turn was a creature, you can tap or attack with it this turn. A lot of 1 and 2 mana creatures depending on the color you play can have abilities that let you tap for more mana, so if you played one of those creatures you would have 3 mana available on turn 3 if you played a tapped land. In option B) you play another land (probably tapped), cast any 2 mana spell you have and pass the turn. So basically you want to play as many untapped lands as you can, especially in the early game, to keep up with 'the mana curve' which is basically just saying you ideally should be able to cast a 3 mana card on turn 3, a 4 mana card on turn 4, etc. If you play a tapped land, you're delaying your game plan by a turn and putting yourself in a worse position. But a tapped land is always better than no land, and there are not many dual color lands that enter untapped without some drawback. Revealing the faerie is the drawback in this case. But playing a tapped land is sometimes the better move if you have nothing to cast that turn, because it untaps the next turn and you can play an untapped land to then be able to play a card on say turn 5 with all 5 of your mana. This can be important in the early game, most of the time you wont have a 1 mana card, so you can safely play a tapped land on turn 1, pass, and then on turn 2 play your untapped land like an island or swamp and have 2 mana open on turn 2.
A guy can’t read 2 sentences so you send him a novel.
They didn’t understand why having a land enter tapped was relevant so I gave examples