Desert

Desert is a nonbasic land type used for cards that depict a sandy or rocky region that is arid because of little rainfall and supports only sparse and widely spaced vegetation or no vegetation at all.
==History==
The subtype was created in the Eighth Edition rules update when all land types were cleaned up. For a long time, the only card featuring the subtype was the archetypal <c>Desert</c> from Arabian Nights. It was printed as such in Time Spiral/Timeshifted. 
Apart from the ability to tap for colorless mana, the original Desert also can do 1 damage to attacking creatures. The subtype was needed because the <c>Camel</c>s and <c>Desert Nomads</c> are immune to the damage done by deserts and refer to them by type.
Amonkhet finally featured four deserts, mirroring the harsh and punishing deserts of Egypt. They were inspired by the original card. The original <c>Desert</c> was not reprinted because, according to Mark Rosewater, it slows games down and isn’t fun.
The theme evolved quite a bit with Hour of Devastation, which features fifteen lands with the Desert subtype and sixteen cards that mechanically care about Deserts (there's some overlap between those two lists).
Deserts returned in the Wild West themed Outlaws of Thunder Junction, with the first dual-colored deserts. Like <c>Sunscorched Desert</c>, they deal one damage to an opponent, which is a low-investment way to commit a crime.
==Ruling==
*Desert is a land subtype with no special meaning. It doesn't grant the land an intrinsic mana ability. Other cards may care about which lands are Deserts.
==List of desert cards==
==List of cards caring about deserts==
==List of storyline deserts==
===Amonkhet===
*The Broken Lands
*Shefet
===Dominaria===
*Aerona
**Erg Mirab
**Surr
*Corondor
**Sand Seas
*Jamuraa
**Great Desert
**Sukurvia
**Tivan Desert
**Western Wastes
*Terisian Isles
**Adarkar Wastes
**Erg Desert
**Kovria
**Megheddon Defile
*Western Desert
===Mirrodin/New Phyrexia===
*Glimmervoid
===Rabiah===
*Karun Desert
===Rath===
*Flowstone Desert
===Shandalar===
*Osai Desert
===Tarkir===
*The Shifting Wastes
===Thunder Junction===
*Spinegully
===Ulgrotha===
*Dead Zone
==Trivia==
*Many lands that are technically deserts are instead typed as plains, such as Esper's dunes or Tarkir's deserts. This comparison seems to be directly referenced in the flavor text of a Dungeons & Dragons: Adventures in the Forgotten Realms .
==Tokens==
;Test cards
==References==
Category:Locations