Utility lands function like spells and lands in that they give you a way to use your mana, mitigating the effect of flood since you can do something and helping ease mana screw because you can slip in a few extras. My favorite utility lands are...
Read moreFast lands are the duals you need when you need your deck to get off the ground right away.
Read moreThere have been dozens of dual land cycles printed over the years, but ways of fixing for three colors at the same time are few and far between. It’s time to show you every single tri-land that has ever been printed in Magic.
Read moreEverybody knows dual lands are helpful. They help you balance out your land count and fix your mana to be more consistent. It can be hard to strike a good balance with just basic lands, and you can sometimes find yourself not getting enough mana...
Read moreScry lands have gone on a journey from being fairly niche to highly competitive to tertiary mana fixers at best. They’re useful budget lands, if nothing else.
Read moreWhile the simple act of fetching a land from your library to the battlefield can fix your mana, the best targets for your fetch abilities enter untapped or have additional effects when they hit the field.
Read moreNot to be confused with landcyclers, cycling lands are a great addition to decks that want to seed in more ways to mitigate mana flooding.
Read moreBasic lands are practically free. You can grab them out of a land box at your local game store or Grand Prix. They’re very cheap in their most basic form. But people love to bling out their decks, so it makes sense that even the simplest thing...
Read moreHave you ever drafted a deck or built a sealed pool and just let Arena or MTGO tell you what basic lands you should run? What happens when you go to your local store to do your first in-person Draft and you don’t have an algorithm telling you...
Read moreWe could say a mana ability is simply an ability that produces mana, but that’s not exactly the full truth of the matter. It gets a little more complicated than that once you dig into the rules a bit more.
Read moreTo this day, I’ve never met an MTG player who’s never gotten screwed by a bad land draw. Sometimes you get too few (mana screw) and sometimes you get too many (mana flood). Finding a good balance of lands is crucial to any deck. One of the most...
Read moreThe surveil lands instantly became on of the best dual land cycles in MTG, offering the perfect amount of value on a fetchable tapland.
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