Full-Art Lands: The Complete Guide for MTG Arena and Paper Magic

Last updated on April 6, 2026

Island (Zendikar) | Illustration by Véronique Meignaud

When it comes to full-art lands I imagine you’re probably a fan, and you’re in fine company. These artistic beauties are rightfully loved by MTG players all over the world. Jump on the bandwagon as I take an artful trip along paper and MTG Arena lane to show you what’s available in both these worlds.

So, buckle up, get ready to swap your wallpaper, and let's take a deep dive into MTG(A)’s full-art lands.

Full-Art Lands in MTG Arena

Plains (Bloomburrow) | Illustration by Piotr Dura

In past versions of MTG Arena, you were able to get full-art lands in your decks through a couple of “shortcuts.” And by shortcuts, I mean basically cheating the system. WotC has smoothed out all these “shortcuts.” The only way to get full-art lands on Arena now is through the proper channels, which I’ll be talking about in just a second. Let’s get to it!

How to Get Full-Art Lands on MTGA

You might find full-art lands on Magic Arena under Featured or Bundles in the Store.

There are a couple of different ways to get full-art lands on Arena that all center around the same core: play games of Magic. Pay attention to certain special events, challenges, promo codes, and sales pop-ups.

Not all events and challenges will get you full-art lands, as there are specific events created specifically for you to get your hands on them. In the past, these events have involved different deck challenges that run for a small-ish timeframe. Usually, though, you can play as many times as you want until you reach the grand prize of a full-art land while the event is running.

There are also occasional promo codes that you’ll get from physical products that ”unlock” digital full-art lands in MTG Arena. All you need to do is buy the product and then use your one-time code that will be included.

Every now and then the MTGA store will also just straight-up sell some full-art lands. As Arena did with the Unsanctioned lands.

Events, paper promo codes, and the MTGA store are all things to keep an eye on to stay on top of ways to get your hands on those coveted lands. But what are the potential options? I’m so glad you asked!

Arena's Full-Art Lands: The List

Let’s check out all the lands that have previously been made available on MTG Arena. Most of MTGA's full-art lands were also physically printed, and I'll cover dual releases a little further down. This is for purely digital full-art lands. Let's take a look!

Unsanctioned

The great thing about an online platform is that you can do away with borders even more. This is exactly what happened with the Unsanctioned lands which were added to Arena in February 2020, which differ slightly from the paper versions. I wonder why they didn't just print these as the paper versions, though. I get the nod to the original Un-lands, but this looks a bit cleaner.

Full-Art Lands for Paper Magic

As is to be expected, there are a lot more versions of full-art lands in real life for you to choose from, collect, and put in your decks. Take a look and take your pick! You can’t go wrong here, because, honestly, they’re all incredibly beautiful.

Unglued

These Unglued lands are the OG full-art lands of MTG. That's right, the very first iteration of the full land concept included No products found. cycle. They were released in the first Un-set back in August of 1998.

Zendikar

Zendikar is a huge plane that contains huge monsters. The jump to huge lands, aka full-art, was only logical. Like the Un-sets, every future visit to this plane is sure to include another iteration of No products found., though this release back in October 2009 was the first.

Judge Gift Promos

Terese Nielsen is one of MTG's most sought-after artists, so it was no surprise that when it was time to give birth to full-art judge gift lands, Wizards turned to her to illustrate. Once upon a time, No products found. was among the most expensive basic lands you could buy for your decks until the Guru lands came along. Which, maybe not too surprisingly, were also illustrated by Terese Nielsen.

Battle for Zendikar

Our first return to Zendikar in October 2015, these BFZ full-art lands were included to the delight of Magic fans everywhere. Like the first visit to Zendikar, they made sure to give you several new arts for each basic land.

And it sounds like we'll have more full-art lands in our next return to the plane, Zendikar Rising.

Oath of the Gatewatch

While we were still on Zendikar, the incredible devastation of the eldrazi caused the land to turn colorless. This gave Wizards the perfect opportunity to give you No products found. and Wastes #184) in all their full-art beauty.

Unstable

The last set of 2017 to feature full-art gorgeousness were the fullest lands we've seen so far, given to us in Unstable. Practically borderless and beautifully illustrated by the great John Avon, these nuggets became popular very quickly. And, honestly, looking at the likes of an Unstable Island it's not hard to figure out why.

Modern Horizons

Two years without full-art lands left us parched, so when Modern Horizons came out in June of 2019, it showed us something we'd never seen before, full-art snow-covered lands. Before certain bannings, these snow-covered lands were pretty expensive because no deck could go without them, but now they're available at a more reasonable price. So, if you're a fan of winter wonderlands like this No products found., go pick some up for sure.

Unsanctioned

Another Un-set, another set of full-art lands to go with them. Adam Paquette used his talent to create these wonderful and unique-looking lands for the first reprint of a combination of Un-sets, which we got in February 2020.

Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths

I mentioned new iterations that we'd never seen before back in Theros, and tri-lands came as the newest shock when they released with Ikoria. No wonder WotC took this wonderful first to celebrate it with special full-art editions in May 2020.

Double Masters

While not the first reprints of full-art lands, these were highly anticipated. Double Masters gave us these beauties in August 2020. With a new border to grace these wonderful pieces of art, they're exciting for a whole new generation of players to collect them.

Fallout

Take in the scenes of locations from Fallout with this cycle of basic lands that look like they've been on a battlefield and endured years of toxic, infect and wither. Plus, I slid a Secret Lair Wastes in there, be sure to use sunscreen, that radiation from the sun is no joke.

Assassin's Creed

The locations in Assassin's Creed are worth scoping out. Check out all the architecture for climbing and freerunning.

Bloomburrow Store Championship

The full-art Urza's Saga is a sweet prize for winning your store championship, the default version goes for upwards of $40. This special land really celebrates the most famous Urza's lands in Magic so don't take this card lightly as it is won by coming out on top of a tournament, with some luck and hard work.

John Avon Secret Lair Promo Basics

The art of John Avon is found on some of Magic's most popular cards. These basics are beautiful additions if you earn one with a purchase of certain amounts at conventions like the 2025 MagicCon Las Vegas.

Secret Lair: SpongeBob Squarepants

The Secret Lair of Bikini Bottom includes lands that show off the fun locations SpongeBob and friends frequent. The Command Tower under the sea is a rotating bonus card, and so it might not be included in your order.

Dual Release: Full-Art Lands Available on MTG Arena and Paper

Some full-art lands were released to both Magic's digital platform(s) and to physical printing. These identical full-art basics are available to you whether you prefer the feel of paper Magic or the ease and aesthetic of the digital world!

Secret Lair: Tokyo Lands

A sweet Secret Lair drop here in the fine foil Tokyo Lands. These dropped a while ago with a release date of September 2022. I'm a big fan of these, I wished I could've picked them up when I had the chance, but for now, I suppose I'll just have to enjoy looking at them from afar.

Secret Lair: The Unfathomable Crushing Brutality of Basic Lands

The No products found. was a Secret Lair drop that included one of each basic land in beautiful full-art monochrome versions. Each land is a unique piece of art by Mark Riddick and shares a close resemblance with the full-art lands in both Innistrad: Midnight Hunt and Innistrad: Crimson Vow. These are available on MTG Arena through one-time use codes included with the Secret Lair which provided both sleeves as well as the lands themselves.

Unhinged

The Unhinged full-art lands were originally released in November of 2004. The second Un-set saw the realization of these gorgeous lands like this No products found.. Fuller art, smaller borders, everyone went crazy when they hit the scene. These sets have become a staple for full-art lands and will definitely continue to feature new and exciting lands for you to collect.

Amonkhet

You could get your hands on these lands in MTG Arena when Amonkhet was first available back in April 2017. Unfortunately, they weren't available for a long time so newer players who weren't part of the beta will have missed out. However, there's now a second chance for you to get your hands on these beautiful lands in the MTGA store with the release of Amonkhet Remastered.

If you're starting to see a pattern in full-art lands showing up more frequently as time moves forward, you're right. Wizards finally picked up on the never-ending demand for full-art lands, and No products found..

Hour of Devastation

Just like with Amonkhet, Hour of Devastation is for sale alongside MTG Arena's Amonkhet Remastered if you're looking for the digital version of these lands. You'll be able to get your hands on these awesome looking lands once again.

As the name of the set suggests and eternally captured in the art of these Island full-art iterations from Hour of Devastation, Nicol Bolas‘ time was at hand. Moving the sun slightly to directly in the middle of his horns perfectly captured the beginning of the battle against this powerful planeswalker. The second of 2017's trio, these lands were released in July 2017.

Zendikar Rising

Zendikar Rising gave us some beautiful full-art lands. With three different versions for each basic, they look great in an opening hand.

Theros: Beyond Death

With the release of Theros: Beyond Death back in January 2020, MTG Arena had a couple of events that would reward you with these lands and they were in the Store for a short while. If you missed out on those, you'll have to wait for another opportunity to get your hands on these Nyx-alicious lands.

2020 proved to be another full-art bonanza, and Theros was only the first set to feature a new twist on them: No products found..

Secret Lair: Godzilla Lands

The Godzilla-inspired set of Ikoria became available not too long before this Secret Lair dropped in July 2020. Suffice it to say, they're Hot with a capital H! You could get your hands on these in MTG Arena with a product code included in the Secret Lair drop, received upon arrival of your purchase of this product.

Huge creatures, full-art, front and center. WotC released the Godzilla lands with a Secret Lair drop in July 2020, and I don't see how you can look at these and not love them. They're pretty hard to get now that the drop has come and gone, so let's cross our fingers that they'll soon be the reward in a special event in MTGA!

Innistrad: Midnight Hunt Lands

These beautifully illustrated stylized lands come to use from the spooky, night-filled Midnight Hunt set that marked 2021's Standard rotation. The lands are pretty unique with a borderless black and white art style. We get two versions of each of the five basic lands for a total of 10 full-art lands.

Innistrad: Crimson Vow Lands

Midnight Hunt‘s sequel set, Innistrad: Crimson Vow, continued with the black and white basic lands. With two more versions of each of the five basic lands, you have an even wider variety of full-art basic lands to choose from if there weren't enough already.

Unfinity Orbital Space-ic Lands

Un-sets have always featured beautiful full-art lands, and Unfinity is no exception. These full-art, borderless basics (ahem, space-ics) show a view of your lands from outer space. Far out!

Unfinity Planetary Space-ic Lands

Unfinity‘s set designers really spoiled us this time around. The planetary space-ic lands are the second cycle of basic lands in this set, this time with a funky mana symbol at the bottom.

Unfinity Borderless Shock Lands

Two sets of borderless basic lands were already plenty enough for one set, but we got the full cycle of borderless shock lands! I must say, the art certainly doesn't disappoint. The color contrast on some of these cards is just… amazing.

Secret Lair: Astrology Lands

The Astrology Lands is a Secret Lair drop from 2022. It is always great to see characters involved in basic lands like the pair on the foil pisces Island.

Secret Lair: PixelSnowLands.jpg

No products found. was another Secret Lair drop that is no longer in print. The drop featured one of each basic land in a pixel-art-themed version. An identical set of lands also went on sale on MTG Arena as opposed to including a code with each Secret Lair purchase.

Secret Lair: Dracula Lands

The Dracula lands are a Secret Lair drop that was released alongside Innistrad: Midnight Hunt which featured five gorgeous vampire-themed basic lands. An identical set was also sold on MTG Arena, where players could opt to buy the entire set or just individual lands.

Secret Lair: Shades Not Included

Shades Not Included refers to a Secret Lair drop that includes one copy of five unique basic lands. Each card features retro-futuristic art pieces available in foil and non-foil versions. The drop also included a one-time use MTG Arena code that could be redeemed to unlock the art styles in the game.

Special Guest: Kozyndan: The Lands

Kozyndan worked with Wizards of the Coast on a number of Secret Lair Drops, but I must say I'm the biggest fan of No products found.. The foiled-out special guest Kozyndan lands are especially slick.

Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty Lands

Following Innistrad: Crimson Vow, Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty released and brought us ten more gorgeous full-art lands to gaw at and include in our Commander decks! Each land features a unique and captivating piece of art that acts as a window into the world of Kamigawa. Personally, I think the breathtaking Forests are definitely my favorites. What are yours?

Streets of New Capenna Lands

With Streets of New Cappena, we are awarded 10 full-art basic lands that are absolutely stunning. They exhibit the qualities and theme of the families and districts, which really immerse you within the world.

Dominaria United

With full-art lands becoming the norm, it's a surprise to nobody that Dominaria United came with its own suite of lands. I think Wizards, yet again, hit the nail on the head with these stained-glass lands!

The Brother's War

While not as grandiose as the lands out of Dominaria United, the lands from The Brother's War bring their own sense of impending-doom and fantasy warfare that I've quickly fallen in love with. I mean, just look at those Phyrexian war machines!

Phyrexia: All Will Be One

Phyrexia: All Will Be One came after the Dominaria storyline involving all things Phyrexian and time travel. This set has a full suite of full-art basic lands for players to enjoy.

Included are two sets, one with beautiful depictions of massive landscapes and machines, and the others being “Phyrexianized” full arts with intricate versions of the mana pips.

Phyrexia: All Will Be One Etched

ONE's release also brought five beautiful etched full-art lands. Each basic type got a unique printing featuring a black and white background and a mana pip front and center. I think that these are a big step up from the black and white lands out of Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty. These are more legible and distinct!

March of the Machine

No surprise here, March of the Machine brings us a set of 10 full-art basics. These are, of course, gorgeous, and they each feature some cleverly incorporated Phyrexian symbols within the landscape of the art. Not only are these lands beautiful, they do a great job invoking the massive destruction and horrified awe the residents of the Multiverse must have felt during the Phyrexian invasion.

All of these artists deserve a standing ovation for their contributions, truly.

Secret Lair: The Mountain Goats

You gotta love a card that tells a story, in this case, 10 Mountains from the Secret Lair: the Mountain Goats. None other than John Darnielle of the band Mountain Goats had creative control to produce these.

Lord of the Rings

The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth full-art lands are, without a doubt, some of my favorite full-art lands from the last few years of releases. They each depict wonderfully drawn segments of the map and follow a consistent theme and art style across each type.

Wilds of Eldraine

Keeping the past few years' traditions, Wilds of Eldraine comes with a suite of full-art basic lands. Each one features a beautiful view of silhouettes dominated by the land's individual color.

Secret Lair: PixelLands_v02

There is charm in low-resolution images these days, so if you like a little 8-bit video game action or have nostalgia for 90s computing, these basics with filename: PixelLands_v02.jpg from the Secret Lair are fun.

Secret Lair: Meditation on Nature

The art by JungShan is relaxing and belongs in a massage salon near you. When you need a moment and to take a deep breath on turn 18 of a stalemate, draw a land from Secret Lair: Meditations on Nature and you can gain focus to help you make the best play possible.

Secret Lair: Gary Baseman

The creepy-cute style of the Secret Lair: Gary Baseman makes for odd basic lands. Comment below or discuss in the Draftsim Discord among the Secret Lairs.

The Lost Caverns of Ixalan

The striking use of light in The Lost Caverns of Ixalan and fresh icons for the mana symbols make these feel like an adventure movie poster and some of the coolest lands yet.

Jurassic World Collection

For the first time since the godzilla lands, I feel like I'm playing a threat when I play these lands. Few cards show a story like these double-faced basics from the Jurassic World Collection.

Secret Lair: Paradise Frost

Winter scenes illustrated by ELK64. Snow-Covered basics are capable of doing just a bit more for you and your deck. Connect with the critters from the Secret Lair: Paradise Frost because they are cool.

Judge Gift Cards 2023

The lands illustrated by Jorge Jacinto make nature look incredible in foil. If you spy a sunlit bird on the Island, my interpretation is that the flier is perched on a rock, looking into the water near the bottom.

Murders at Karlov Manor

Good luck finding the perp on Ravnica. With this much city to search it's impressive to solve any case, much less the Murders at Karlov Manor.

Outlaws of Thunder Junction

With the backdrop of a western theme, it fits to look at the lands in Outlaws of Thunder Junction and appreciate the massive expanses that really play a role in Western movies. Since I get to play the villain with OTJ, I hope you find the desert mechanics… refreshing, like the Desert!

Modern Horizons 3

Try as you might, it's hard to imagine the eldrazi representing a color. They are a big part of these basic lands from Modern Horizons III though.

Bloomburrow

A year on the Plains, Island, Swamp, Mountain and Forest in the Valley on Bloomburrow.

Duskmourn: House of Horror

These are not rooms in Duskmourn: House of Horror, but rather entire landscapes within the walls of the haunted house. Good luck finding a map to show you from one land to another, and forget what you know about depth and scale. You don't need me to warn you about getting lost in one of these cards.

Foundations

The setting for Magic: The Gathering rests on the basic lands you know and love. These peaceful full-art basics have lovely color, and I think it's really relatable to see characters in their element, without a battle raging around them, well done Foundations. Did you spot Loot, Exuberant Explorer?

Aetherdrift

Aetherdrift covers a lot of ground…I mean land. The race is well depicted through its lands and the full arts are way more exciting than the run-of-the-mill basic lands.

Tarkir: Dragonstorm

Check out the perspective these Tarkir: Dragonstorm lands give you. You get a dragon's flying perspective, and literal eyes in the collector booster. If you like the art in this set, then feast on the full arts.

KEXP: Where the Music Matters

The University of Washington music scene would be much different without KEXP, and believe me, your LGS is not the only one that loves good tunes while you jam some Magic games. Make your deck into quite an expression of yourself with these Secret Lair x KEXP: Where the Music Matters lands.

Final Fantasy

You don't have to be a fan of each Final Fantasy game to enjoy the character-driven locations. This spread of 16 full art basic lands show the scope of the mainline games. Then Through the Ages brings you to Bhujerba, Floating City / City of Brass and Balamb Garden / Command Beacon.

Secret Lair: X Sonic Chaos Emeralds

To get this version of Command Tower you need to get lucky with a bonus card from one of the drops like Secret Lair x Sonic The Hedgehog: Friends & Foes foil edition. You could get one of the five differently colored Lotus Petal cards which are highly valuable, but this land is still quite a goal.

Edge of Eternities

The ships and spacecraft in Edge of Eternities provide much needed perspective to the grand scale at which the space-themed set operates.

You can't leave this section without gazing upon the Stellar Sights. This bonus sheet is all lands, and each one is considered full art. These are really cool reprints, and many are super useful, like that Ancient Tomb that pops up in Brawl.

Spider-Man

Is this Charlotte's Web or Marvel's Spider-Man? It's interesting to see snippets of the New York City area on a Standard Magic card.

The Mana Symbiote Secret Lair puts raised foil to work in a slick drop of dark basic lands. The Command Towers come in the Heroic Deeds and Villainous Plots drops.

Secret Lair: Flower Power

Pick the Flower Power Secret Lair if this strikes your fancy.

Secret Lair: Ghost of Tsushima

The Playstation Secret Lair Ghost of Tsushima shows the strategic Castle Shimura as the tricky legends matters land, Eiganjo Castle.

Secret Lair: Countdown Kit: An Encyclopedia of Magic

Reference the Magic Encyclopedia and our list of slang, and add them to your non-fiction collection. In case you are wondering, aside from F, T, U, V and W, the rest of the alphabet are not full art lands.

Avatar: The Last Airbender

Across three books, more than 60 chapters of episodes, and certainly more than five regions, Avatar: The Last Airbender sees the heroes ride Appa and airbend them to their next destination. The lands featured here are key locations with serious story implications. Admit it, you almost forgot these are Universes Beyond cards.

One more set from Last Airbender, this time a more grounded perspective including that of The Lion-Turtle, not that card, the land!

Secret Lair: Mystic Sanctuary

This Mystic Sanctuary comes in the drop for Dandân, a shared deck format.

Final Fantasy

Chocobo Camp is a unique scene card from the Final Fantasy holiday release Camp Comrades scene box. The rainbow lands with chocobos are from the Chocobo bundle.

Wizards Play Network Promo 2025

This promo of Commander Tower is for a player appreciation EDH event on Dec. 12-18, 2025.

Lorwyn Eclipsed

Lorwyn Eclipsed has a dark and light side to each land, including the shock lands. They are sort of modal dual face lands, but the same functionality on both sides. A great excuse to spring for new solid-backed sleeves.

Secret Lair: Lands of the Forgotten Realms

The Secret Lair Lands of the Forgotten Realms remind me of the essential fantasy background at the foundation of Magic.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

There's a distinct feeling of cool when you're a ninja that slips in and out of a scene in silence, and these turtles capture it.

Splinter would get the mushroom pizza. Thank you Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, but honestly, I think these are kind of gross. Keep pizza away from my cards.

Secrets of Strixhaven

The students in Secrets of Strixhaven get at A on my test for full-art lands. These have a small character on it, great lighting, and are full of floating, airborne, uplifting elements.

The Best Full-Art Lands

My Take On It

Opinion time! Obviously, this is super subjective and we’re more than likely not going to agree on this, but that’s OK. I’m kinda old school, so for me, the first Unglued lands are the most desirable full-art lands to get your hands on:

But that’s just me. The widespread consensus on this subject is a little different.

Community Consensus

Most players find the Unhinged lands, illustrated by John Avon, to be the best and most beautiful full-art lands available out there. This hasn’t escaped Wizards’ notice either, because I wouldn’t be surprised that if this is why they were chosen as the specific five basic land reprints in special packs of Double Masters. Here they are again if you missed them up there:

Obviously, this is an incredibly subjective debate, so there’s no “right” answer. Hopefully, you’ll now have a great place to go to choose your favorite full-art land to grace the contents of your decks.

Why So Many Full Art Lands Now?

Players love full art lands, that's why! In recent years, Wizards of the Coast has amped up their full-art land production to a great extent. Previously—as in more than 12 years ago—full-art lands were somewhat of a rare commodity that only the most hardcore or rich players had access to. Nowadays, practically every set has them in two forms. You might ask, “Why so many full art lands now?” and the simple answer to that is that everybody loves them.

More than 10 years of rarity and the widespread desire to bling out your Standard or Commander decks have caused everyone to crave their own full-art collection. In a poll on the official Draftsim Twitter, nearly 60% of voters were in favor of new full-arts every set! People love customization. It's a habit that I don't think will stop just because more and more full-arts get printed.

Land's End

Mountain (The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth) | Illustration by Samuele Bandini

With that gorgeous list of lands for you to peruse, you’ve come to the end of our talk today. I hope that our time together has helped you further appreciate the art of Magic. If you’ve been moved to go out there and buy actual full-art lands, or craft them with Arena wildcards, then I consider that a fruitful completion.

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