MTG Salvation

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Quote from Bread Connoisseur

Of course you don't want to take out balance, the card is ****ing broken in half. Same reason you don't *want* to take out time vault, mox ruby, wheel of fortune, etc. etc. all of those cards are pretty broken. Just because a card is a personal favorite of yours doesn't mean it's going to be great in a given format. I absolutely adore psionic gift and other random commons but said cards constructed applications are nonexistant.

Lotus vale is still not going to see legacy play. One wasteland activation makes you cry quite hard. You can have all those lands in your hand, if you can't play spells you aren't winning a game of magic I can tell you that much.

I hope land tax is selling for too much money on site at GP Atlanta so I can unload mine at inflated prices. It would be great to get some money for a card that is going to end up at 10-15 before the year is out.

Quote from Bread Connoisseur

Try playing the card in legacy. See what happens. You durdle around for approximately 15 turns assuming you survive 15 turns and then you start to get an advantage. I wouldn't actually care if I faced land tax in a tournament, as the card is actually terrible due to powercreep. Sure back in 1998 I'm sure tax rack was a nuts engine. But today? The opponent will sneak in a griselbrand and destroy you. Or reanimate it. Or do something that actually does things, as all land tax gets are basic lands. Life from the loam is superior to land tax and how much play does loam see outside aggro loam and lands.dec? Loam is a 1-2 of at best in green decks not built to utilize the card to its fullest. And do you see lands or aggro loam putting up a lot of results currently? No, because loam is a very durdly card that does nothing to prevent an aberration from repeatedly swinging at you. And the card advantage it provides is nothing compared to griselbrand. But really, this post says it all:

Land tax is back. Reaction: Who cares?

^^The joke is, land tax could have been unbanned 4 years ago and it would have done next to nothing. 4 years later, it gets unbanned, and isn't breaking anything. Just like metalworker, grim monolith, dream halls, and illusionary mask the card is, simply put, not that good anymore.

Now if balance was unbanned, there would be a reckoning. As it stands, land tax will be a niche card in legacy at best or it will be a card used in the control mirror. The card just isn't that strong.