Well Green has been the prime mana fixer since forever, but keep your chin up, there's still a lot of set yet to be spoiled, so I'm sure we'll have something.
That said, it looks like they want us to maybe cut down on our colors a bit. Maybe make mono decks a little more viable or something. Just my personal take on it.
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I swear I first read it as Wingbonger...something tells me that "As Long as Wingbonger is paired with another creature, both creatures have weed." wouldn't be as good. Seems solid for limited.
I'm not saying you can make a stable 5 color deck, but you can easily play 2 colors and even splash a third one (if you're playing a high land count such as in a control deck).
What's odd to me is that the enemy-colored M-Duals were printed in a set that seems to have a focus on allied-colored tribes.
It's not that odd if the ravnica rumor is true. The scars lands leave, and we have a full cycle of check lands, plus whatever the ten guild lands are. This would make eight equal dual lands for each guild.
Green should have the best fixing and exactly how r the M10 duals too slow? Maybe u haven't noticed but were not going to be running 22 non basics and only 2 basic lands any more.
With all the artifact fixing we have there will be no problem if we really need the fixing we can just get it
We still have 6 unrevealed lands, which might include an allied land cycle and maybe evolving wilds. There are also tons of artifacts, and we still have allied lands in m12 and mirrodin.
Solemn Simulacrum and Sphere of the Suns are probably the best ways to go now. Mycosynth Wellspring is meh, but definitely not unplayable. Manalith is just bad, Coalition Relic was played because it could provide mana next turn as well as now.
Hopefully there's at least one shuffle/search land.
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Bident Layers B Devotion RG Devotion UW Control Modern:
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Combo Pod Legacy: DeathBlade RUG Delver BUG Control
Sphere of the Suns hasn't been mentioned yet. That can work as a temporary Rampant Growth style effect until you draw into Solemn Simulacrum or actual lands.
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What's odd to me is that the enemy-colored M-Duals were printed in a set that seems to have a focus on allied-colored tribes.
They pretty much had to do this because when Zendikar rotates there would have been no enemy color-fixing land in Standard. I have a feeling that the yet unspoiled land is going to be allied color-fixing.
Yeah, mana fixing is reduced a bit, but not every Standard has to allow rainbow decks. In fact, forcing people to chose two colors with a splash at most can be very good for the environment, because it can increase the variety of decks that have to be played. While I'm not happy that the titans are back, this does mean that the lesser-played titans will at least have a chance, as well as a lot of other cards that wouldn't have seen as much play in an environment where people could just run the best cards regardless of color.
Plague Spitter is right, there are 6 lands remaining: numbers 239 and 243-247.
I suspect we'll get 1 special land (it might be something like Evolving Wilds, which actually fits in that slot) in 239 and a cycle (1 or 2 colored) in the 243-247 range, the cycle will most likely have the same first word (like Vivid lands did, which unfortunately do not fit there :().
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Ghosts quarters?
That said, it looks like they want us to maybe cut down on our colors a bit. Maybe make mono decks a little more viable or something. Just my personal take on it.
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When Brian Tinsman, Set Designer enters the battlefield, ignore all flavor and mechanics of the first two sets in the block.
"Ok so what do we have here... gothic horror? Scrap it. Expand the Devine Vs. Demonic duel deck to 244 cards and print it!"
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(U/B)(U/B)(U/B) JUMP IN THE LINE, ROCK YOUR BODY IN TIME
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EDIT: Llanowar Elves?
The OP explicitly stated non-green.
Five color metalcraft anyone?
Hoping for a cure, or at least an outbreak.
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Llanowar Elves isn't mana fixing it's ramp. It costs G and provides G.
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Two sets of allied duals and one set of enemy duals.
I'm not saying you can make a stable 5 color deck, but you can easily play 2 colors and even splash a third one (if you're playing a high land count such as in a control deck).
The core set duals are good I hear. These are almost identical (only difference being the color). I think the Innie duals will enable a lot of decks.
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As did lorwyn
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It's not that odd if the ravnica rumor is true. The scars lands leave, and we have a full cycle of check lands, plus whatever the ten guild lands are. This would make eight equal dual lands for each guild.
Hoping for a cure, or at least an outbreak.
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With all the artifact fixing we have there will be no problem if we really need the fixing we can just get it
Check the spoiler again.
Hopefully there's at least one shuffle/search land.
Bident Layers
B Devotion
RG Devotion
UW Control
Modern:
Jund
UW Control
Combo Pod
Legacy:
DeathBlade
RUG Delver
BUG Control
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They pretty much had to do this because when Zendikar rotates there would have been no enemy color-fixing land in Standard. I have a feeling that the yet unspoiled land is going to be allied color-fixing.
Plague Spitter is right, there are 6 lands remaining: numbers 239 and 243-247.
I suspect we'll get 1 special land (it might be something like Evolving Wilds, which actually fits in that slot) in 239 and a cycle (1 or 2 colored) in the 243-247 range, the cycle will most likely have the same first word (like Vivid lands did, which unfortunately do not fit there :().
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