Wastes was a fairly pointless addition, however it set a precedent that new basic lands are not untenable.
Casual table top magic players desperately need the following land...
Ravnica Land - Basic Land
Ravnica Land comes into play tapped
Tap: Add one mana of any color to your mana pool.
As far as competitive play goes, this would not make any impact. Decades of experience demonstrated that comes into play tapped lands are a nonstarter in competitive gameplay, especially in a world where fetchlands and duallands exist.
Where this would make a HUGE impact is casual/kitchen table play. The cost of manabases is insane. Its what makes magic so obscenely expensive, and its a barrier to the game that Wizards can and should address by printing a land like the above.
This idea shares a lot with a similar suggestion posted in the MTG Arena community forum that was right on point:
“Name: Highland
Type: Basic Land
Text:
Tap - Add one colorless mana.
Tap - Add one mana of any color. You may use this ability only if your deck contains no more than a single copy of any card other than basic lands.
This one card would instantly shake up the meta completely. Suddenly so many new unique varied strategies would make an appearance in standard, modern, legacy and vintage. It would add so much variety to the game that I'm blown away the Wizards already hasn't printed such a land.
Of course, it should be a common, as widely available as wastes atleast, but lets think about how it would impact magic as a whole.
You can play a traditional consistent deck with 4 opt, 4 fumigate, and 4 teferi for control, 4 bomat courier and 4 lightning strike and 4 goblin chainwhirler for aggro etc.
Or you can forgeo consistency by playing only a single copy of each card, to be able to play cards of any color you want.
Those decks become a lot less predictable, decks would feel more similar to draft decks, with tons of possible starting hands and variety of game play. No two games would feel the same.
It would make deck building a lot more fun too. You can use the most powerful cards you have, regardless of color, but you only get to play one copy of them.
You could play your brawl deck in standard, or your edh deck in legacy and not have an inconsistent manabase.”
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No you wouldnt need to call a judge when this land gets played.
Do players call a judge at the start of every brawl or EDH game? Do standard players automatically assume their opponents are playing 5 Goblin Chainwhirlers and call the judge preemptively to check?
If your opponent ever plays a second copy of a card they already played, thats when you call the judge.
If your opponent never casts the same card twice, why would call a judge?
The real question is, how many standard players wish they could make a standard legal brawl deck that doesnt automatically suck due to having a horribly inconsistent manabase?
Why not? Highland could actually potentially enable a whole new slew of competitive decks in standard and legacy, its unlikely but possible. If it does enable some new legacy decks, that would be a welcome addition to the format.
It would at the very least generate a ton of interest in magic and bring back some players who stopped playing due to surge in costs of manabases, which is good for the game.
It would also make brawl decks portable over to standard and would make edh decks easily portable over to legacy, making for a significant Quality of Life improvement for EDH and Brawl players.
Casual table top magic players desperately need the following land...
Ravnica Land - Basic Land
Ravnica Land comes into play tapped
Tap: Add one mana of any color to your mana pool.
As far as competitive play goes, this would not make any impact. Decades of experience demonstrated that comes into play tapped lands are a nonstarter in competitive gameplay, especially in a world where fetchlands and duallands exist.
Where this would make a HUGE impact is casual/kitchen table play. The cost of manabases is insane. Its what makes magic so obscenely expensive, and its a barrier to the game that Wizards can and should address by printing a land like the above.
This idea shares a lot with a similar suggestion posted in the MTG Arena community forum that was right on point:
“Name: Highland
Type: Basic Land
Text:
Tap - Add one colorless mana.
Tap - Add one mana of any color. You may use this ability only if your deck contains no more than a single copy of any card other than basic lands.
This one card would instantly shake up the meta completely. Suddenly so many new unique varied strategies would make an appearance in standard, modern, legacy and vintage. It would add so much variety to the game that I'm blown away the Wizards already hasn't printed such a land.
Of course, it should be a common, as widely available as wastes atleast, but lets think about how it would impact magic as a whole.
You can play a traditional consistent deck with 4 opt, 4 fumigate, and 4 teferi for control, 4 bomat courier and 4 lightning strike and 4 goblin chainwhirler for aggro etc.
Or you can forgeo consistency by playing only a single copy of each card, to be able to play cards of any color you want.
Those decks become a lot less predictable, decks would feel more similar to draft decks, with tons of possible starting hands and variety of game play. No two games would feel the same.
It would make deck building a lot more fun too. You can use the most powerful cards you have, regardless of color, but you only get to play one copy of them.
You could play your brawl deck in standard, or your edh deck in legacy and not have an inconsistent manabase.”
Welcome! There's an edit function for posts. Rapid multi-posting can be considered spam. If these were real cards this would belong in Standard New Card Discussion, otherwise I think it belongs in Custom Card Creation. Moving. - hoser2
For the first time ever, You could play your brawl deck in standard, or your edh deck in legacy and not have an inconsistent manabase.
Its well past time that Wizards do something about the ridiculous price of manabases.
Its well past time that Wizards reduce the barrier for entry into EDH and Brawl largely due to ridiculous manabase costs.
Do players call a judge at the start of every brawl or EDH game? Do standard players automatically assume their opponents are playing 5 Goblin Chainwhirlers and call the judge preemptively to check?
If your opponent ever plays a second copy of a card they already played, thats when you call the judge.
If your opponent never casts the same card twice, why would call a judge?
The real question is, how many standard players wish they could make a standard legal brawl deck that doesnt automatically suck due to having a horribly inconsistent manabase?
It would at the very least generate a ton of interest in magic and bring back some players who stopped playing due to surge in costs of manabases, which is good for the game.
It would also make brawl decks portable over to standard and would make edh decks easily portable over to legacy, making for a significant Quality of Life improvement for EDH and Brawl players.
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