Landwalk

Landwalk is a former evergreen keyword ability on creatures that makes the creature unblockable if the defending player controls at least one land with a certain characteristic.
==Description==
Landwalk was introduced in Alpha. The keyword always appeared in conjunction with a subtype or supertype to denote the appropriate characteristic, and in most cases did not actually appear as "Landwalk", but instead "Islandwalk", "Desertwalk", "Snow Forestwalk" and so on. "Denimwalk" was used in Unglued. Exceptions to the rule were "Nonbasic landwalk" (<c>Dryad Sophisticate</c>, <c>Trailblazer's Boots</c>), "Legendary landwalk" (<c>Livonya Silone</c>, <c>Ayumi, the Last Visitor</c>), and "Snow landwalk" (<c>Zombie Musher</c>).
Typically, green could get any type of landwalk, while red, black and blue could get the landwalk associated with their respective basic land (mountainwalk, swampwalk, and islandwalk, respectively). "Plainswalk" has always been the least used basic landwalk type (only 5 cards) because it's not a great fit for its color mechanically, nor has particularly strong flavor. Also, the fact that "planeswalk" became an important concept in the game made "plainswalk" confusing.
In the course of time, landwalk fell out of favor with R&D and was not getting used very often. The issue that it held was the opposite of Intimidate, but with more extreme issues - whereas Intimidate got an evasive creature that became overcosted in a few matchups, Landwalk gets a vanilla creature that performs far above the curve in a few matchups. The lack of counterplay was another significant issue - changing a deck's manabase to remove a type of basic is not a change most decks can perform. It was declared obsolete altogether with the release of Magic Origins. An exception was made for the supplemental set Modern Horizons 2, which also introduced "artifact landwalk" (landwalk for artifact lands) with <c>Vectis Gloves</c>.
Supplemental sets and Universes Beyond sets may occasionally use landwalk for flavor reasons.
==Rules==
==Examples==
==Cards that grant Landwalk==
;Plainswalk
*<c>Aysen Highway</c> 
;Islandwalk
*<c>Piracy Charm</c> 
*<c>Fishliver Oil</c> 
*<c>Lord of Atlantis</c> (other Merfolk creatures)
*<c>Master of the Pearl Trident</c> (other Merfolk creatures)
*<c>Part Water</c> 
*<c>Sandals of Abdallah</c> 
*<c>War Barge</c> 
*<c>Goblin Flotilla</c> 
;Swampwalk
*<c>Filth</c> (if it's in your graveyard and you control a Swamp)
*<c>Funeral Charm</c> 
*<c>Leshrac's Rite</c> 
*<c>Nighthaze</c> 
*<c>Zombie Master</c> (other Zombie creatures)
;Mountainwalk
*<c>Burrowing</c> 
*<c>Cave Sense</c> 
*<c>Goblin King</c> (other Goblin creatures)
*<c>Volcanic Strength</c> 
;Forestwalk
*<c>Dryad's Favor</c> 
*<c>Eladamri, Lord of Leaves</c> (other Elf creatures)
*<c>Elvish Champion</c> (other Elf creatures)
*<c>Ivy Dancer</c> 
*<c>Nature's Cloak</c> 
*<c>Hidden Path</c> 
*<c>Lumbering Satyr</c> 
*<c>Weatherseed Elf</c> 
;Artifact Landwalk
*<c>Vectis Gloves</c> 
;Nonbasic Landwalk
*<c>Trailblazer's Boots</c> 
;Landwalk of the chosen type
*<c>Excavator</c> 
*<c>Traveler's Cloak</c> 
;Multiple (potentially)
*<c>Concerted Effort</c> (if you control a creature with that landwalk ability)
==Anti-landwalk==
Anti-landwalk cards allow creatures with a given landwalk ability to be blocked as though they didn't have that ability. The cards are listed below:
 
Enchantments
*<c>Crevasse</c> (mountainwalk)
*<c>Deadfall</c> (forestwalk)
*<c>Great Wall</c> (plainswalk)
*<c>Quagmire</c> (swampwalk)
*<c>Undertow</c> (islandwalk)
**These five enchantments form a cycle of landwalk hosers in Legends
* The Aura <c>Street Savvy</c> permits enchanted creature block creatures with landwalk abilities as though they didn't have those abilities.
* The World Enchantment <c>Mystic Decree</c> causes all creatures to lose islandwalk. 
Creatures
*<c>Gosta Dirk</c> (islandwalk)
*<c>Lord Magnus</c> (plainswalk, forestwalk)
*<c>Ur-Drago</c> (swampwalk)
Artifacts
*<c>Staff of the Ages</c> (any landwalk abilities)
==Gallery==
Duels Forestwalk.png|Magic Duels Forestwalk Symbol
Duels Islandwalk.png|Magic Duels Islandwalk Symbol
Duels Mountainwalk.png|Magic Duels Mountainwalk Symbol
Duels Swampwalk.png|Magic Duels Swampwalk Symbol
==References==
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