Leyline of Abundance is one of those cards players keep asking about. Here is, in plain words, what its official text says, the rulings published by Wizards of the Coast, and the combos players actually run.
Official card text
If this card is in your opening hand, you may begin the game with it on the battlefield. Whenever you tap a creature for mana, add an additional.
Complete guide
Leyline of Abundance is a powerful enchantment that rewards you for employing creatures that generate mana. It provides a significant acceleration boost early in the game and a repeatable way to strengthen your entire army in the late game. This card is a cornerstone for decks looking to overwhelm opponents with vast amounts of mana and massive creatures.
A Free Head Start
The 'Leyline' ability allows you to begin the game with this card on the battlefield if it is in your opening hand. Your opening hand is defined as the final hand of cards you keep after all mulligans have been resolved. If multiple players have Leylines or similar pre-game effects, the starting player announces theirs first, followed by each other player in turn order, and then the first turn begins.
Triggering the Mana Boost
The second ability is a triggered mana ability. It triggers specifically when you activate a mana ability of a creature that includes the tap symbol ({T}) in its cost. If you tap a creature to pay for a cost that doesn't use the tap symbol (such as 'Tap an untapped creature you control'), or if you tap a creature to activate an ability on a different object, Leyline of Abundance will not trigger. When it does trigger, it adds one additional Green mana ({G}) to your mana pool.
Late-Game Scalability
Once you have built up a large amount of mana, Leyline of Abundance offers a mana sink for {6}{G}{G}. Activating this ability puts a +1/+1 counter on every creature you currently control. Since this is an activated ability of the enchantment, it does not require you to tap the Leyline itself, meaning you can use it multiple times in a single turn if you have the mana.
Common Pitfalls
A common mistake is assuming this card triggers on any creature being tapped. Remember, it must be a mana ability of the creature itself that uses the {T} symbol. Also, the mana generated by the Leyline is added by the enchantment, not the creature. If an effect prevents creatures from producing mana, the Leyline won't have a trigger to react to.
Interaction examples
Doubling SeasonIf you have both Leyline of Abundance and Doubling Season on the battlefield and you activate the Leyline's last ability, Doubling Season's replacement effect will see you putting one +1/+1 counter on each creature. It will instead place two +1/+1 counters on each creature you control.
Garruk's UprisingSuppose you have several 3/3 creatures and Garruk's Uprising. By activating Leyline of Abundance's ability, your creatures become 4/4. Because Garruk's Uprising gives all creatures you control trample, your newly buffed army can now deal excess damage to your opponent while meeting the power requirement for future card draw triggers.
Guide written with AI from the official text and rulings. Official English text prevails.
How it works : Leyline of Abundance
Original English text — Wizards of the Coast / Scryfall
- #1· Wizards of the Coast
A player's "opening hand" is the hand of cards the player has after all players have taken mulligans. If players have any cards in hand that allow actions to be taken with them from a player's opening hand, the starting player takes all such actions first in any order, followed by each other player in turn order. Then the first turn begins.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #2· Wizards of the Coast
An ability that triggers "whenever you tap a creature for mana" triggers only if you activate a mana ability of a creature including
in its cost. Mana abilities that don't include the symbol and instead say "Tap an untapped creature you control" or similar won't cause Leyline of Abundance's second ability to trigger. Similarly, it won't trigger if you tap a creature to activate a mana ability of another object (even if that mana ability also includes ).No other card is named in this ruling.
Popular combos
Real combos played by the community, sorted by popularity.
Yurlok of Scorch Thrash + Leyline of Abundance + Umbral Mantle
- 1Activate Yurlok of Scorch Thrash by paying
and tapping it, causing you to add 
and each opponent to add . - 2Activate Yurlok of Scorch Thrash by paying
and untapping it, causing itself to get +2/+2 until end of turn. - 3Repeat an arbitrarily large amount of times.
- 4Move to your next step or phase, causing each opponent to lose life equal to the amount of unspent mana in their mana pool.
Yurlok of Scorch Thrash + Leyline of Abundance + Sword of the Paruns
- 1Activate Yurlok by paying and tapping it, causing you to add and each opponent to add .
- 2Activate Sword of the Paruns by paying , untapping Yurlok.
- 3Repeat an arbitrarily large amount of times.
- 4Move to your next phase, causing each opponent to lose life equal to the amount of unspent mana in their mana pool.
Llanowar Tribe + Umbral Mantle + Leyline of Abundance
- 1Activate Llanowar Tribe by tapping it, adding .
- 2Leyline of Abundance triggers, adding .
- 3Activate Llanowar Tribe by paying and untapping it, giving itself +2/+2 until end of turn.
- 4Repeat.
Ezuri, Renegade Leader + Devoted Druid + Leyline of Abundance
- 1Activate Devoted Druid's first ability by tapping it, adding .
- 2Activate Devoted Druid's second ability by putting a -1/-1 counter on it, untapping it.
- 3Activate Devoted Druid's first ability by tapping it, adding .
- 4Activate Ezuri's second ability by paying
, causing all Elves you control to get +3/+3 and gain trample until end of turn. - 5Activate Devoted Druid's second ability by putting a -1/-1 counter on it, untapping it.
- 6Activate Devoted Druid's first ability by tapping it, adding .
- 7Activate Devoted Druid's second ability by putting a -1/-1 counter on it, untapping it.
- 8Repeat.
Incubation Druid + Umbral Mantle + Leyline of Abundance
- 1Activate Incubation Druid's first ability by tapping it, adding three mana of any color a land you control could produce.
- 2Leyline of Abundance triggers, adding .
- 3Activate Incubation Druid by paying and untapping it, giving itself +2/+2 until end of turn.
- 4Repeat.
- 5Once you have infinite , you may activate Leyline of Abundance's ability to put infinite +1/+1 counters on each creature you control.
Devoted Druid + Leyline of Abundance + Hardened Scales + Branching Evolution
- 1Activate Leyline of Abundance by paying
, putting four +1/+1 counters on each creature you control due to Hardened Scales and Branching Evolution. - 2Activate Devoted Druid's first ability by tapping it, adding .
- 3Leyline of Abundance triggers, adding .
- 4Activate Devoted Druid's second ability by putting a -1/-1 counter on it, untapping Devoted Druid.
- 5Repeat from step 2 three additional times.
- 6Repeat from step 1.
Ashaya, Soul of the Wild + Leyline of Abundance + Pili-Pala
- 1Activate Pili-Pala's Forest ability by tapping it, adding .
- 2When you tap Pili-Pala for mana, Leyline of Abundance triggers, adding .
- 3Activate Pili-Pala's own ability by paying and untapping it, adding one mana of any color.
- 4Repeat.
- 5Once you have infinite mana, you may activate Leyline of Abundance infinite times and activate Quirion Ranger targeting any creatures infinite times.
Devoted Druid + Leyline of Abundance + Hardened Scales + The Earth Crystal
- 1Activate Leyline of Abundance by paying , putting four +1/+1 counters on each creature you control due to The Earth Crystal and Hardened Scales.
- 2Activate Devoted Druid's first ability by tapping it, adding .
- 3Leyline of Abundance triggers, adding .
- 4Activate Devoted Druid's second ability by putting a -1/-1 counter on it, untapping Devoted Druid.
- 5Repeat from step 2 three additional times.
- 6Repeat from step 1.
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