Commonly played (and drafted) by people who are bad at card evaluation, I'd say. Brainstorm minus shuffling is a pretty bad card.
Anyway I've had rare lands (and tri lands) for my entire cube's life, 4-5C foodstuff has never been dominant (maybe won a draft or three but that's certainly not worrisome). Notably, I have ZERO signets, which are perhaps even more important for people who want to draft "pile of midrange stuff" decks.
Fetches without shocks or revised duals are kinda meh. They fuel delve and threshold, but the actual fixing is generally worse than a check/shock/pain if you can only get basics. I mean, opening hand of mountain plus Caves of Koilos makes for perfect Mardu mana, but mountain plus Marsh Flats forces you to choose which basic you want, with no guarantee that you'll ever see the other.
It's also, what, 200+ bucks for a playset of 10 fetches?
Lol "good" fixing does not exist, c/u lands are pretty terrible. "Rares" cubes sometimes play tri lands or more rarely karoos (yuck), but they're almost always worse and later picks than literally every other land option (don't say Veldt).
I run shocklands, checklands, temples, and tris at a 450 cube. I like people actually casting Qasali Pridemage on T2, or curving Gore-House Chainwalker into Pianna without blindly hoping for the right three basics. Can't imagine ever dropping down to worse lands now that I've played this way for months.
(If budget is a thing, you could just sharpie through the ETBT line on your guildgates)
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Anyway I've had rare lands (and tri lands) for my entire cube's life, 4-5C foodstuff has never been dominant (maybe won a draft or three but that's certainly not worrisome). Notably, I have ZERO signets, which are perhaps even more important for people who want to draft "pile of midrange stuff" decks.
It's also, what, 200+ bucks for a playset of 10 fetches?
I run shocklands, checklands, temples, and tris at a 450 cube. I like people actually casting Qasali Pridemage on T2, or curving Gore-House Chainwalker into Pianna without blindly hoping for the right three basics. Can't imagine ever dropping down to worse lands now that I've played this way for months.
(If budget is a thing, you could just sharpie through the ETBT line on your guildgates)