<p>Lands are never spells, even if they have other types like <a class="mtg-autocard" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" href="https://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Dryad%20Arbor">Dryad Arbor</a>.</p>
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<p><strong>305.1.</strong> A player who has priority may play a land card from his or her hand during a main phase of his or her turn when the stack is empty. Playing a land is a special action; it doesn’t use the stack (see rule 115). Rather, the player simply puts the land onto the battlefield. Since the land doesn’t go on the stack, <strong>it is never a spell</strong>, and players can’t respond to it with instants or activated abilities.</p>
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<p><strong>305.9.</strong> If an object is both a land and another card type, it can be played only as a land. It can’t be cast as a spell.</p>
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2015-11-16T20:02:22.850Z
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diego
<p>Lands are not spells. They have no mana cost and you do not cast them. <a href="http://mtgsalvation.gamepedia.com/Lands">Rule 305.1</a> describes how lands are played:</p>

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  <p>A player who has priority may play a land card from his or her hand during a main phase of his or her turn when the stack is empty. Playing a land is a special action; it doesn’t use the stack (see rule 115). Rather, the player simply puts the land onto the battlefield. <strong>Since the land doesn’t go on the stack, it is never a spell</strong>, and players can’t respond to it with instants or activated abilities.</p>
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murgatroid99
<p>I know lands are colourless, but is a land a colourless spell? Would it activate <a class="mtg-autocard" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" href="https://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Molten%20Nursery">Molten Nursery</a> or any other card that is activated with a colourless spell?</p>

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2015-11-17T11:04:35.813Z
By the way, lands aren't always colorless, they could be colored when stated. I believe Dryad Arbor is the only colored land from the top of my head though. And of course if you have something like Painter's Servant on the battlefield
Ivo
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2015-11-17T15:20:36.130Z
Mycosynth Lattice??
ThunderToes
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2015-11-18T16:20:41.413Z
@Nathan Taylor, That won't make a difference. 305.9. If an object is both a land and another card type, it can be played only as a land. It can’t be cast as a spell.
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Is a land a colourless spell?
Jacob Lawton
# Is a land a colourless spell?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2015-11-16)

I know lands are colourless, but is a land a colourless spell? Would it activate [Molten Nursery](https://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Molten%20Nursery) or any other card that is activated with a colourless spell?

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> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: By the way, lands aren't always colorless, they could be colored when stated. I believe Dryad Arbor is the only colored land from the top of my head though. And of course if you have something like Painter's Servant on the battlefield  
> **username_2**: Mycosynth Lattice??  
> **username_3**: @Nathan Taylor, That won't make a difference. 305.9. If an object is both a land and another card type, it can be played only as a land. It can’t be cast as a spell.  

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## 2 answers

### Answer by username_4 on 2015-11-16. Score: 15

Lands are never spells, even if they have other types like [Dryad Arbor](https://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Dryad%20Arbor).

> **305.1.** A player who has priority may play a land card from his or her hand during a main phase of his or her turn when the stack is empty. Playing a land is a special action; it doesn’t use the stack (see rule 115). Rather, the player simply puts the land onto the battlefield. Since the land doesn’t go on the stack, **it is never a spell**, and players can’t respond to it with instants or activated abilities.

> **305.9.** If an object is both a land and another card type, it can be played only as a land. It can’t be cast as a spell.


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### Answer by username_5 on 2015-11-16. Score: 10

Lands are not spells. They have no mana cost and you do not cast them. [Rule 305.1](http://mtgsalvation.gamepedia.com/Lands) describes how lands are played:

> A player who has priority may play a land card from his or her hand during a main phase of his or her turn when the stack is empty. Playing a land is a special action; it doesn’t use the stack (see rule 115). Rather, the player simply puts the land onto the battlefield. **Since the land doesn’t go on the stack, it is never a spell**, and players can’t respond to it with instants or activated abilities.


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