Shards of alara islands. The one with the floating icebergs and grid in the sky that lines up with the border post.
The plains that are actually deserts are kewl.
Ice age snow covered mountains
The forests with the "tree boob" in foil.
The swamps that look like a salvidor Dali painting.
I think they're clouds but I have a few foil Shards Island. I'm not huge on the Plains or Swamp of the same shard (Esper) but the Island is pretty cool.
Shards of alara islands. The one with the floating icebergs and grid in the sky that lines up with the border post.
The plains that are actually deserts are kewl.
Ice age snow covered mountains
The forests with the "tree boob" in foil.
The swamps that look like a salvidor Dali painting.
I think they're clouds but I have a few foil Shards Island. I'm not huge on the Plains or Swamp of the same shard (Esper) but the Island is pretty cool.
That's my baby! Whatever those flat bottomed things are, they're awesome.
Pm me if you'd be willing to trade away your foil one's!
My favorites are probably the original Mirrodin lands. Favorite plains: Not easy to find them in foil though. At least not anymore.
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G Azusa, Lost but Seeking G UG Tishana, Voice of Thunder GU UBW Sen Triplets WBU WUBGAtraxa, Praetors' Voice GBUW WUBRGJodah, Archmage Eternal GRBUW GWR Mayael the Anima RWG RWB Edgar Markov BWR WG Gaddok Teeg GW W Oketra the True W
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Nearly all my lands are Champions of Kamigawa, I'm just crazy about the look. I use exclusively CHK Swamps and Forests. Plains I use Odyssey block, Mountains are Portal or so on. Commander is a little complicated. I like my basics to match the shard my Commander is from, so Sigarda had Avacyn Restored forests and plains.
These are non-foil generally, as I no longer foil my decks.
For limited events, white-border lands. My partner and I used all revised basics for our pool, it was sweet.
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The "Crazy One", playing casual magic and occasionally dipping his toes into regular play since 1994.
Currently focusing on Pre-Modern (Mono-Black Discard Control) and Modern (Azorious Control, Temur Rhinos).
Find me at the Wizard's Tower in Ottawa every second Saturday afternoons.
The one crime they have made in this game is not including full art lands like Unstable in the bundle boxes showcasing the artwork of basic land cycle for that standard. Imagine if every artwork for land had a borderless, limited time only, full art version of it available. Holy smokes would the lands from Rivals and a bunch of other sets be hot commodities. Thankfully, I'm a big fan of John Avon so I kind of got my wish with unstable, but I still wish I could get the same style for other artists.
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1. (Ravnica Allegiance): You can't keep a good esper control deck down... Or Wilderness Reclamation... or Gates...
2. (War of the Spark): Guys, I know what we need! We need a cycle of really idiotic flavor text victory cards! Jace's Triumph...
3. (War of the Spark): Lets make the format with control have even more control!
The one crime they have made in this game is not including full art lands like Unstable in the bundle boxes showcasing the artwork of basic land cycle for that standard. Imagine if every artwork for land had a borderless, limited time only, full art version of it available. Holy smokes would the lands from Rivals and a bunch of other sets be hot commodities. Thankfully, I'm a big fan of John Avon so I kind of got my wish with unstable, but I still wish I could get the same style for other artists.
I'd be all over full art Shadowmoor and Time Spiral lands, oh boy.
In Commander, I use a different art for each basic land. But other than that, it really depends.
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Card advantage is not the same thing as card draw. Something for 2B cannot be strictly worse than something for BBB or 3BB. If you're taking out Swords to Plowshares for Plummet, you're a fool. Stop doing these things!
I pretty much only use portal basics for everything now, I really like the old school border and there's something about the art in a lot of the pieces i really enjoy.
Here's the lands I use:
If we're going old school, I still think "t: Add U to your mana pool." was better than one giant teardrop. Mostly because of n00bs who thought Llanowar Elves tapped for a friggin' Nature's Lore.
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Card advantage is not the same thing as card draw. Something for 2B cannot be strictly worse than something for BBB or 3BB. If you're taking out Swords to Plowshares for Plummet, you're a fool. Stop doing these things!
I used to use Battle for Zendikar full arts for everything since I have a LOT of them due to opening a fat pack, a booster box I won and then several loose packs when it was a pretty new set.
Slowly I've been moving away from them and towards Unstable full arts and the foil promo lands they were giving away at GPs this year because I really like them. Didn't pick up as many of the promo lands in GP Montreal as I wish I did so I have my show and tell legacy deck with them and then I have enough for either deaths shadow variant I wanna play (4c traverse runs 1 swamp and 1 forest, GDS 1 island and 1 swamp, so doesn't take much). In my modern Mardu or Abzan I've been using Unstable lands since they're cool, while still a bit more, but easy enough to get. Might pick up more pomro basics next time I'm at face to face games.
In standard or commander I use from my overabundance of BFZ. I might put Odyssey basics in legacy pox as they're cool and old border
The plains that are actually deserts are kewl.
Ice age snow covered mountains
The forests with the "tree boob" in foil.
The swamps that look like a salvidor Dali painting.
3BB
Sorcery
You lose the game.
I think they're clouds but I have a few foil Shards Island. I'm not huge on the Plains or Swamp of the same shard (Esper) but the Island is pretty cool.
(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
That's my baby! Whatever those flat bottomed things are, they're awesome.
Pm me if you'd be willing to trade away your foil one's!
(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
UG Tishana, Voice of Thunder GU
UBW Sen Triplets WBU
WUBGAtraxa, Praetors' Voice GBUW
WUBRGJodah, Archmage Eternal GRBUW
GWR Mayael the Anima RWG
RWB Edgar Markov BWR
WG Gaddok Teeg GW
W Oketra the True W
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These are non-foil generally, as I no longer foil my decks.
For limited events, white-border lands. My partner and I used all revised basics for our pool, it was sweet.
Currently focusing on Pre-Modern (Mono-Black Discard Control) and Modern (Azorious Control, Temur Rhinos).
Find me at the Wizard's Tower in Ottawa every second Saturday afternoons.
Spirits
1. (Ravnica Allegiance): You can't keep a good esper control deck down... Or Wilderness Reclamation... or Gates...
2. (War of the Spark): Guys, I know what we need! We need a cycle of really idiotic flavor text victory cards! Jace's Triumph...
3. (War of the Spark): Lets make the format with control have even more control!
(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
WUBRG Humans
BRW Mardu Pyromancer
UW UW "Control"
UR Blue Moon
(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
On phasing:
Here's the lands I use:
BGGRock
Modern
BRGJund
BBGRock
On phasing:
Slowly I've been moving away from them and towards Unstable full arts and the foil promo lands they were giving away at GPs this year because I really like them. Didn't pick up as many of the promo lands in GP Montreal as I wish I did so I have my show and tell legacy deck with them and then I have enough for either deaths shadow variant I wanna play (4c traverse runs 1 swamp and 1 forest, GDS 1 island and 1 swamp, so doesn't take much). In my modern Mardu or Abzan I've been using Unstable lands since they're cool, while still a bit more, but easy enough to get. Might pick up more pomro basics next time I'm at face to face games.
In standard or commander I use from my overabundance of BFZ. I might put Odyssey basics in legacy pox as they're cool and old border