Leyline

Leyline
	Leyline in front of an Island
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Card art	art:"Leyline"

Leylines, sometimes called mana lines, are ancient mana paths that flow and crisscross each other across a given landscape. All planes have a network of leylines.

In the game

All Magic: The Gathering cards that feature leylines are enchantments. All leylines other than the first (Ley Line) allow you to begin the game with them on the battlefield if it is in your opening hand, since leylines are found rather than cast.^[1]^[2]

There have been four cycles of Leylines with the "opening hand" clause, all with a 2MM cost. They were printed in Guildpact, Magic 2011, Core Set 2020, and Duskmourn: House of Horror. However, due to their utility as sideboard cards, three have been reprinted, one of them (Leyline of the Void) being the same all four times, resulting in a total of 15 instead of 20.

In addition, Leyline of the Guildpact is the first multicolored leyline, printed as the only leyline in Murders at Karlov Manor. Leyline Axe is the first "leyline" card that has the clause but is not a leyline by definition: it is hence the first artifact and by extension the first colorless one. Both of these still have mana value 4, but no longer cost 2MM.

Story examples

Nissa Revane is especially adept in manipulating leylines.
On Ravnica the leylines formed the Implicit Maze.^[3]
On Amonkhet, the leylines coalesced into the gods.^[4]
On Zendikar the leylines connected the hedrons.^[5]
- A focal point of the leylines could be found in the Singing City.^[6]
Eldrazi are known to follow leylines.^[7]
On Innistrad Nahiri created cryptoliths to bend the leylines to her will, and to summon Emrakul.^[7]
In Duskmourn, leylines are portals to the spirit world.
Muraganda has many exposed leylines and leygeysers that are sources of raw magic.