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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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EDH: Grand Arbiter $tax, Freyalise Stompy, Mimeoplasm Death From the Grave
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)
Current:
Planned:
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.
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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
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Modern: RW R/W Burn WB B/W TokensXU MonuU Tron // UWX UW Tron R GoblinsW Soul SistersRWG Small ZooWUR WUR Geist/Control/Kiki-Resto Combo/NahiriUR Splinter Twin (90% Japanese)/ Grixis TwinRUB UR Delver / Grixis Delver UR Blue MoonBWU Ad NauseamWDeath and TaxesRUB Grixis ControlUMerfolksX Affinity RGB Living End UR Storm/PiF Combo RGX R/G TRON GWU Bant Eldrazi BW Eldrazi and Taxes RUBGoryos Vengeance UB Faeries Legacy:BRx Renimator Playing right now:Standard: Jeskai Control Modern; GoryosVengeance/UBFaeries/Affinity Legacy: BRx Reanimator Pauper: UR Drake (banned) Commander: Merieke Ri Berit Esper
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.
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:
(W/U)(B/R)GForm of Progenitus, Shape of a Scrubland
BRGJund Tokens with Prossh, the Magic Dragon Foil
URGAnimar, the RUG CleanerFoil
RRRFeldon of the Third Path 2.0 Foil
BG(B/G)Not Another Meren DeckFoil
UR(U/R)Mizzix, Y Control and X Burn Spells
(W/U)(B/R)GHarold Ramos - The 35 Foot Long Twinkie (In +1/+1 counters)
UB(U/B)Dragonlord Silumgar
(W/U)(B/R)GForm of Progenitus, Shape of a Scrubland
BRGJund Tokens with Prossh, the Magic Dragon Foil
URGAnimar, the RUG CleanerFoil
RRRFeldon of the Third Path 2.0 Foil
BG(B/G)Not Another Meren DeckFoil
UR(U/R)Mizzix, Y Control and X Burn Spells
(W/U)(B/R)GHarold Ramos - The 35 Foot Long Twinkie (In +1/+1 counters)
UB(U/B)Dragonlord Silumgar
... Trying very hard not to post them all. ;D I love land!
I can see this thread really getting bogged down with a bunch of images, so I will lump them into different spoiler tags:
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.
Pioneer:UR Pheonix
Modern:U Mono U Tron
EDH
GB Glissa, the traitor: Army of Cans
UW Dragonlord Ojutai: Dragonlord NOjutai
UWGDerevi, Empyrial Tactician "you cannot fight the storm"
R Zirilan of the claw. The solution to every problem is dragons
UB Etrata, the Silencer Cloning assassination
Peasant cube: Cards I own
Too bad all my tournament decks are blue!
@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.
(W/U)(B/R)GForm of Progenitus, Shape of a Scrubland
BRGJund Tokens with Prossh, the Magic Dragon Foil
URGAnimar, the RUG CleanerFoil
RRRFeldon of the Third Path 2.0 Foil
BG(B/G)Not Another Meren DeckFoil
UR(U/R)Mizzix, Y Control and X Burn Spells
(W/U)(B/R)GHarold Ramos - The 35 Foot Long Twinkie (In +1/+1 counters)
UB(U/B)Dragonlord Silumgar
I think all of these arts are sweet. Don't really have a special reason for running them or anything
BGGRock
Modern
BRGJund
BBGRock
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.
@Iansisle Those mirage lands are absolutely gorgeous, I'll have to get a couple of those.
(W/U)(B/R)GForm of Progenitus, Shape of a Scrubland
BRGJund Tokens with Prossh, the Magic Dragon Foil
URGAnimar, the RUG CleanerFoil
RRRFeldon of the Third Path 2.0 Foil
BG(B/G)Not Another Meren DeckFoil
UR(U/R)Mizzix, Y Control and X Burn Spells
(W/U)(B/R)GHarold Ramos - The 35 Foot Long Twinkie (In +1/+1 counters)
UB(U/B)Dragonlord Silumgar
I like the Plains and Swamp the most of those lands.
(W/U)(B/R)GForm of Progenitus, Shape of a Scrubland
BRGJund Tokens with Prossh, the Magic Dragon Foil
URGAnimar, the RUG CleanerFoil
RRRFeldon of the Third Path 2.0 Foil
BG(B/G)Not Another Meren DeckFoil
UR(U/R)Mizzix, Y Control and X Burn Spells
(W/U)(B/R)GHarold Ramos - The 35 Foot Long Twinkie (In +1/+1 counters)
UB(U/B)Dragonlord Silumgar
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.
Set to default
BGGRock
Modern
BRGJund
BBGRock
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.
EDH: Grand Arbiter $tax, Freyalise Stompy, Mimeoplasm Death From the Grave
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.
WUBRGReaper King - Superfriends
WUBRGChild of Alara - The Nauseating Aurora
WUBSharuum the Hegemon - Christmas In Prison
WUBZur the Enchanter - Ow My Face
WRJor Kadeen, the Prevailer - Snow Goats
BRGrenzo, Dungeon Warden - International Goblin All Purpose Recycling Facility Number 12
WGSaffi Eriksdotter - Saffi Combosdotter
UPatron of the Moon - The Age of Aquarius
BHorobi, Death's Wail - Bring Out Your Dead
GSachi, Daughter of Seshiro - Sneks
Planned:
(W/U)(B/R)GForm of Progenitus, Shape of a Scrubland
BRGJund Tokens with Prossh, the Magic Dragon Foil
URGAnimar, the RUG CleanerFoil
RRRFeldon of the Third Path 2.0 Foil
BG(B/G)Not Another Meren DeckFoil
UR(U/R)Mizzix, Y Control and X Burn Spells
(W/U)(B/R)GHarold Ramos - The 35 Foot Long Twinkie (In +1/+1 counters)
UB(U/B)Dragonlord Silumgar
RW R/W Burn WB B/W TokensXU MonuU Tron // UWX UW Tron
R GoblinsW Soul SistersRWG Small ZooWUR WUR Geist/Control/Kiki-Resto Combo/NahiriUR Splinter Twin (90% Japanese)/ Grixis TwinRUB UR Delver / Grixis Delver UR Blue MoonBWU Ad NauseamWDeath and TaxesRUB Grixis ControlUMerfolksX Affinity RGB Living End UR Storm/PiF Combo RGX R/G TRON GWU Bant Eldrazi BW Eldrazi and Taxes RUBGoryos Vengeance UB Faeries
Legacy:BRx Renimator
Playing right now: Standard: Jeskai Control Modern; GoryosVengeance/UBFaeries/Affinity Legacy: BRx Reanimator Pauper: UR Drake (banned) Commander: Merieke Ri Berit Esper
(W/U)(B/R)GForm of Progenitus, Shape of a Scrubland
BRGJund Tokens with Prossh, the Magic Dragon Foil
URGAnimar, the RUG CleanerFoil
RRRFeldon of the Third Path 2.0 Foil
BG(B/G)Not Another Meren DeckFoil
UR(U/R)Mizzix, Y Control and X Burn Spells
(W/U)(B/R)GHarold Ramos - The 35 Foot Long Twinkie (In +1/+1 counters)
UB(U/B)Dragonlord Silumgar
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.
BGGRock
Modern
BRGJund
BBGRock
It's a shame most haven't been reprinted in the modern frame.
Yeah I used that mountain in a sealed tourney the other day, and the Mark Poole land is great.
(W/U)(B/R)GForm of Progenitus, Shape of a Scrubland
BRGJund Tokens with Prossh, the Magic Dragon Foil
URGAnimar, the RUG CleanerFoil
RRRFeldon of the Third Path 2.0 Foil
BG(B/G)Not Another Meren DeckFoil
UR(U/R)Mizzix, Y Control and X Burn Spells
(W/U)(B/R)GHarold Ramos - The 35 Foot Long Twinkie (In +1/+1 counters)
UB(U/B)Dragonlord Silumgar
Selling some cards I don't want.
Generally less than tcg mid.
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
(Also known as Xenphire)