MTG Salvation

Wizards decided to use "Battle Lands" huh? Yes! That makes me happy they used my idea!

I noticed that the guys from the Magic Show have been using Battle Lands too.

'Bilands'

Shaun McLaren's suggestion.

Tango lands sounds bad and doesn't make sense. They're the third land, not the second, better off calling them third wheel lands if you want to go that route.

Zen Duals is what I'm going with (not zuals).

I am from Brazil, but I vote for Tangolands.

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'Bilands'

Shaun McLaren's suggestion.

I read this as "blands" and thought it appropriate. They fix mana, just like every other set of Rare-for-no-reason duals. You'd think that these would be classified as necessary role-players by now, and dropped to Uncommon.

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'Bilands'

Shaun McLaren's suggestion.

I read this as "blands" and thought it appropriate. They fix mana, just like every other set of Rare-for-no-reason duals. You'd think that these would be classified as necessary role-players by now, and dropped to Uncommon.

If we're really being honest here, we could call them Cashlands or Cha-ching lands. We know exactly why they are rare. Or we could call them Discount Doublechecks, because we know exactly what they'll be worth when they leave standard.

But tangolands sounds so much cooler than everything else. Its sounds so James Bond

Then they should be called Bond Lands.

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But tangolands sounds so much cooler than everything else. Its sounds so James Bond

except it sounds anything but cool. it's actually very lame.
thankfully pretty much everyone around here call them battle lands. not a fan, but heaps better than tango.

I'm going to stick with Tangolands until a better name comes up, the issue with Zuals, Battlelands, and Laglands is they aren't different enough descriptively from other lands (Zendikar has no less than five cycles of duallands to its name, Battle has other meanings in Magic context, and they will certainly make a new set with Battle in the name eventually, and Lagland might just refer to Slowlands or any other Tapland).

"It takes two to Tango" directly references a number, and the land in question also references that number. But if someone comes up with something catchier to replace it, I would be fine with that.

Now that I think about it they should be called slacker lands since they take longer to get anything done unless someone else is already doing most of the work...and sometimes not even then if you are using enough non basics.

Trying to start a trend in my LGS to call them "Duo Duals". Simple. Elegant.

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Tango lands sounds bad and doesn't make sense. They're the third land, not the second, better off calling them third wheel lands if you want to go that route.

Zen Duals is what I'm going with (not zuals).

I disagree.

It takes 2 to tango.

If, then.

If you have 2 people, then you can tango.

If you have 2 basics, then you can play this untapped.

You don't count the tangoland itself. You simply follow the equation. Counting the tangoland itself is like saying "but you need a band, and that usually has like 10 people, so you really need 12 people to tango."

I also don't like "Battle Lands." The other part of the cycle will be printed in a set that does not refer to the word Battle, so it's simply incorrect.

I'll call it tango, unless the meme changes to something else. I'm sheeple in that regard.

Battlelands, is what I think they should be.

So I guess they're Tangolands lol

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Tango lands sounds bad and doesn't make sense. They're the third land, not the second, better off calling them third wheel lands if you want to go that route.

Zen Duals is what I'm going with (not zuals).

I disagree.

It takes 2 to tango.

If, then.

If you have 2 people, then you can tango.

If you have 2 basics, then you can play this untapped.

You don't count the tangoland itself. You simply follow the equation. Counting the tangoland itself is like saying "but you need a band, and that usually has like 10 people, so you really need 12 people to tango."

I also don't like "Battle Lands." The other part of the cycle will be printed in a set that does not refer to the word Battle, so it's simply incorrect.

Agree with the reasoning against "Battle Lands", also applies to "Zuals" and "Zendikar Duals".

I understand people when/that call them "Tangolands", but I have trouble buying the metaphor of two basics being the tango dancers and the nonbasic being the tango dance itself. They are three lands, on the same level of existence so to speak, why should one be encompassing the others and at the same time be only part of each? $0.02 (can't post Euros...)

I prefer "Slowlands", "Baselands" and the creative "Doublechecks".

That makes sense re: same type of item, but don't think of it that way. Just think of it in terms of the if/then equation itself.

If you have two people, you can tango.
If you have two basics, you can tangoland.

Regarding "Doublechecks," if you're in Europe do you know about the origin of that term? There's an insurance company with the slogan "Discout Double Check" in its commercials and a famous American Football player (Aaron Rodgers of the Green Bay Packers) as the spokesperson. Some people cringe at the tangoland reference since it's "old fogey" -ish. I cringe at the doublecheck reference because I strongly dislike the Packers :-p

On Battlelands and why I think it's a terrible name.

Battle for Zendikar contains 7 dual lands.

There are two that actually can 'battle' because they can turn into a creature.

If someone didn't know the Worldwake manlands existed, they'd assume you were referring to the WB and UG lands.

Threesome lands.

Milhouse Lands.

I'm still having trouble buying the objection that "tangolands" is silly or sounds dumb. I'm assuming people into a game called "Magic the Gathering" enough to talk about it on a public forum are aware that the game is published by "Wizards of the Coast," that it supports a format called "Elder Dragon Highlander" (because "there can be only one" of each card, get it?), that it once featured a major character named "Squee" and that it, at least jokingly, occasionally showcases abilities like "denimwalk." Maybe I'm just an Old Fogey who remembers when Prodigal Sorcerer was named after a character in a Monty Python movie or noticed that Hunted Wumpus was a reference to an old computer game, but there was once a time when neither the community nor the game designers took themselves too seriously.

I mean, come on: we're all in the same demographic that might buy a "Wade Into Battle" preconstructed deck for an extra copy of Jareth, Leonine Titan. You're okay with "Oath of the Gatewatch" being about vaguely Lovecraftian monsters sucking all the magical energy from the land unless a band of dimension-hopping super-wizards can band together a bunch of merfolk and goblins and whatnot to stop them, but some people on the internet saying "tangolands" is a deal-breaker? It just doesn't make any sense.

Everyone knows what you mean when you say "tangoland," or at the worst you have to explain the reference once. Keep saying "battle" lands and you're going to get people who are super-confused in ten years when they're reprinted in "Tempest on Tarkir" or whatever.

"I don't get it. What do they battle?"

"Well, once upon a time, Magic players were too cool to be overheard saying 'tangoland' for a few months..."

I've been thinking either one of these is fitting:

Close Encounters

or

3rd Kind

(they require 2 other cards to be played before them to get the best value out of them and they are the 3rd of their kind, two basic land types)

I think they should be called Deuce lands. They have both land types (deuce) and they are kinda crappy compared to other duals (also a deuce, or dropping a deuce land)

Havelands, because you have to have lands

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I think they should be called Deuce lands. They have both land types (deuce) and they are kinda crappy compared to other duals (also a deuce, or dropping a deuce land)

And they take two (deuce) basics to be untapped. "Deucelands" is what me and my friends call them also. For all the reasons stated. Mostly the part about them being kind of crappy.