Innovative New Tri-Land Has Never Before Seen Ability

Last updated on September 4, 2025

Oscorp Industries | Illustration by Bastien Grivet

If you sift through the waves and droves of various creatures named “Spider-Man” in the upcoming Universes Beyond release, you'll actually find some ingenuity in the card designs this truncated set has to offer. In particular, the new “mayhem” cards look powerful and well-supported, including a particularly clever tri-land that does something we've never really seen on a land before.

Now Entering Oscorp Industries

Revealed by IGN Tuesday morning, Oscorp Industries is a new 3-color land set to be released with Marvel's Spider-Man later this month. It starts off like an identical copy of Crumbling Necropolis, but the astute among you who realized the last paragraph isn't flavor text probably noticed that this land has the new mayhem ability being introduced in the set.

A card with mayhem can be cast—or in the case of a land, played—from your graveyard if it was discarded from your hand that turn. In other words, if you can pitch Oscorp Industries to the graveyard, you have until the end of the turn to play it.

But isn't it still just a worse Crumbling Necropolis? Well no; you'll lose life, but the glory of mayhem is that you probably got some sort of benefit out of discarding the card to begin with. Even if you just rummaged it away with, say, your Romantic Rendezvous to draw two new cards, you now have your land drop for the turn sitting in your graveyard instead of having to use a card from your hand that turn. That's what we call card advantage, baby! And sure, you always have the option to just run this out as a painful 3-color fixer if you need to.

Closest Comparisons

Many people have pointed out the direct comparison between mayhem and madness, a much older ability that lets you immediately cast a spell for an alternate cost if you discard it. In many ways, madness is a better mechanic, since it lets you ignore normal timing restrictions and essentially “flash in” creatures, sorceries, and other spells if you can discard them at instant speed. But one thing madness doesn't do is work with lands. You can't cast a land, so the mechanic just doesn't work on that card type. Mayhem, however, works perfectly fine, as demonstrated by this new tri-land.

The first comparison is to other Grixis-spectrum lands (). Of the seven that existed prior to Spider-Man, you can basically ignore Castle Sengir, Crosis's Catacombs, and Sulfur Vent as niche or downright bad lands.

Crumbling Necropolis is the most direct comparison, as a tri-land that costs no life to play, but also doesn't have the mayhem upside. Xander's Lounge is a “triome” with cycling upside and relevant basic land types, and is considered the top-tier Grixis land, though some discard decks may prefer to have Oscorp Industries.

Seething Landscape is a budget fetch land, and not really directly comparable to the mayhem land. Same goes for Grixis Panorama and Maestros Theater, which aren't even technically Grixis lands by color identity rules.

Crypt of the Eternals is an interesting one, not because it does anything all that similar to Oscorp Industries, but because it was also a one-off Grixis land in its respective set, Hour of Devastation.

Outside the Grixis shell, you might also draw comparisons to Drownyard Temple. It doesn't have a direct discard ability, but it can be brought out of the graveyard straight into play for hefty 3 mana. It's definitely different than Industries, but fits the description of a land you're happy to discard and get back from the graveyard

Will There Be Other Tri-Lands in Spider-Man?

Xander's Lounge | Illustration by James Paick

Spider-Man still has a few days of previews left, but Oscorp Industries looks like a one-off tri-land, so don't expect a full cycle of 3-color lands in this set.

For one, mayhem is very Grixis-coded. In terms of the color pie, red, black, and blue are the colors that most synergize with discarding. And from a flavor perspective, the villains of the Spider-Man set are mostly centered in this color trio, and mayhem was designed to work with many of the villains. It wouldn't make much sense to have a land with mayhem appear in, say, Bant () or Naya colors ().

There's also precedent for one-off tri-lands in other sets. There's no rule in Magic saying just because you design one 3-color land, there needs to be a full cycle for it. The aforementioned Crypt of the Eternals was the only 3-color land in Hour of Devastation, Murmuring Bosk was the only tri-land in Morningtide, and Tournament Grounds was a one-off in Throne of Eldraine. It doesn't happen often, but lands do ship outside of full cycles some amount of the time. So don't hold out hope for a “Mayhem land cycle” any time soon.