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Hey guys are there any lands that you generally gravitate to when making decks because of their arts? Let me see what you guys use.
No Wrong answers, just post the lands you like, I appreciate the appreciation of land art.

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Here are some that I absolutely have to use:


This is my favourite:

I've also moved towards some of the newer arts:

When not using altered and full art lands, these are a few of my faves...



... Trying very hard not to post them all. ;D I love land!

I am actually in the process of foiling out a couple EDH decks and, while I currently use Full Arts for all my decks, I decided to focus a little more on teh aesthetic of the card (art, frame, shooting star, etc.) to determine which lands to use. I went with some older frame foils partly due to the shooting star and partly due to some awesome arts.

I can see this thread really getting bogged down with a bunch of images, so I will lump them into different spoiler tags:

My lands are picked based on the set my deck is based on.
My commander decks have basic lands based on the set my commander was printed in.

My Standard deck has Kaladesh mountains and Innstrad (rather than shadows) islands .

My Modern deck has Return to ravinica Islands that have towers on them.

My Deveri commander deck doesn't have many basics and all the basics in there are foil, but Deveri doesn't have a set. For some reason I have three of these in foil

I just have the mono red commander set lands for my Zirilan deck where am I going to find miriage mountains all in the same art.

My favourite land is . Adam Paquette is my favourite land artist.

@greywyn Love Aleksi Briclot in general but the shards lands are sweet man good call.

@WizardMN The 7th edition John Avon forest was literally what I was thinking when I made the thread lol, and the Larry Elmore swamp is tight too

@Narvuntien I use that James Paick Island from Innistrad in the only Modern Deck I have. Foil of course.

Ive been using these recently:

I think all of these arts are sweet. Don't really have a special reason for running them or anything

I'm pretty green-obsessed, so Forests are the only lands I really bother considering the aesthetic value of. I also have a preference for pre-8e frames, black borders, and unusual artwork. With that set of conditions in mind, I've fallen in love with the Tony Roberts Mirage forests:


The Anthony Waters Urza's Saga forests are another favorite, especially:


Other than that, I'll either match up lands thematically with the deck (artifact-heavy builds will have Mirrodin-era lands, etc.) or just default to the huge amount of Lorwyn lands that I somehow acquired.

@Schutzwald The Mark Poole lands from commander 2016 are super nice.

@Iansisle Those mirage lands are absolutely gorgeous, I'll have to get a couple of those.

I like the Plains and Swamp the most of those lands.

There's an old thread about this same topic buried somewhere in these forums, but as it is few years old, I'll restate my answer to that one here too.

As a background I decided in 1999 to start collecting promo basic lands and other oddities, like chinese alternate art Portal 1 lands, AN Mountains and Un-set basics. I currently have two three-ring binders full of just basic lands and one smaller binder with 102 misprint german Drudge Skeletons with Swamp art. I also had about 500 foil basic lands, but have sold half of them away since I didn't try to collect lot of copies of the same art, but tried to have one of each. So I kept the old frame ones and started selling the rest slowly to people who actually used them.

I really enjoy the different arts over the years, but quite often end up playing with the same few lands.

Forests: Chinese Portal 1. The Bamboo forests look really nice and most people have never seen those lands.
Islands: Bob Eggleton APAC-promo from the blue booster.
Plains: GURU or Sunflower Plains (Ron Spears) from APAC
Mountains: Arabian Nights, Unglued or any of the APAC Mountains
Swamps: GURU or Edward P. Beard Jr. APAC promo.
Wastes: I like the full art one with the Kozilek affected Mountains in it (number 184). I'm still looking for few more foils, in case some Modern-deck actually uses more than three.

I also love using the original Arena basic land Promos from 1996 and the 2003 Rob Alexander set, as both of those create a larger panoramas when the lands are in correct order. I would also never turn my nose up from somebody using the Mirage lands and I have several times thought about using Mirage Plains on some deck, I even got enough signed 17 years ago that I could play them, but haven't yet.

I love the shooting star in all of them. I run them in my enchantment deck because hey, that's "on theme" or whatever.

For Islands I use the Arena Beta art promos in EDH. They are gorgeous in foil.

http://magiccards.info/arena/en/39.html


For Plains I use the Scottish Highland Euro Lands:

http://magiccards.info/euro/en/4.html


My Legacy deck only has a single full art foil swamp, though I'd prefer a GURU, but since the rest of the deck is pretty much all foil, I need to have this one shiny too. I have a single GURU Island, but it pretty much just hangs out in my binder looking cool.
Any other decks/lands usually get the beta/alpha treatment, I like playing with Beta cards and it's pretty much the only excuse I have to do so.

I only really have one basic land that I reeeeeeeally love over the other ones.
http://magiccards.info/m10/en/231.html
Personally I think it's one of the best foil cards out there, and I would be running nothing but foil ones if I could.

For legacy, some EDH, and the occasional foray into modern I use Euro lands, specifically these 5 For my Jaya list, I currently use Snow-Covered Mountains but am considering jumping over to this (mostly so I can foil them out while keeping an art I like) For other EDH decks, it's mostly Snow-Covered or ZEN full arts. I'm less picky about those because they don't stay around all that long.

I like to play with a mix. White bordered, black bordered foils, promos, alters... and stack them in mixed piles when I play them during the game.

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Those two are really sweet. I was unaware of the older thread for land arts.

i collect basic lands just for fun, but i only use Unhinged lands in all my decks, i think they are the best art and its very easy to build decks whit the same art

I've been feeling one of the Swamps from Amonkhet, and the full art Island:

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I've been feeling one of the Swamps from Amonkhet, and the full art Island:

I love that swamp, it's just a little bubbling brook through the desert.

I amonkhet had some other sweet lands I really liked as well.

Portal: Second Age.
It's a shame most haven't been reprinted in the modern frame.

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I've been feeling one of the Swamps from Amonkhet, and the full art Island:

I love that swamp, it's just a little bubbling brook through the desert.

I amonkhet had some other sweet lands I really liked as well.

Yeah I used that mountain in a sealed tourney the other day, and the Mark Poole land is great.

Jonas De Ro C15 Swamps. A reprint but I like the frame and symbol combination.

The Kamigawa Mountains are my favorites, particularly this one:


In my Karlov EDH deck I use these Terese Nielsen Plains from Tempest because they feel underused and I love the stark contrast between these and your usual Plains. Very desolate being that Tempest was set on Rath.


And here are a couple of the Swamps I'm using in Hapatra, Vizier of Poisons