The Gorge and Cliffs were too costly for me so I went with the painlands for those. For U/W I chose Temple of Enlightenment. Funny story I was also going to go with Temple of Deceit, but I misordered and bought a japanese copy and I think both black and blue have more double colored costs anyhow so I decided screw it and went for Sunken Ruins and then I saw there wasn't a ton of daylight between the regular version and the masterpiece so.....I went from 3$ to 45$...maybe I could've just gotten the Gorge/Cliffs. Lol.
How are these playing for your play groups? I just ordered mine, and I need to make a decision if I should run these instead of manlands- or in addition to. My concern for running them instead of manlands is that they will be gobbled up by players who will use them as 1 of there colors as a way to draw an extra card late in the game, and thus there will be slightly less fixing available in those guilds.
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10 shocks
10 fetches
10 man lands
5 enemy horizon lands
UW cycling
UB cycling
RW dual
RG dual
GW horizon
Then eventually all Horizon lands will Be complete.
I plan to remove the true duals because I cannot complete them and might need the cash in the future.
10 Fetches/ 10 Shocks/ 10 man lands/ 6 horizon lands/ 2 pain lands (RG/RB) a Filter Land (UB) and a Temple (UW).
I think it will work out fine. Duals are awesomely powerful and wonderful if you have that king of budget, but your mana base is fine.
Thanks for the validation. I haven’t played with my cube lately so it gives me confidence on the mana base next time around.