For those scratching their heads at The Boulder joke, it's an Avatar: The Last Airbender reference

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"Good on the budget" explains why most lands I run are in my decks. Expensive lands are my least favorite part of the game.

I do have a Creeping Tar Pit in my Yuriko deck. When it animates it's unblockable. Surprise, the land was a ninja the entire time!

Let’s take a second to appreciate how fast and accurately he pronounced asmoranomardicadaistinaculdacar lol

I can't take Dana seriously anymore, he's way too tan, which means he's been outside and not playing Magic all the time!

I know I’m delayed on this, but the cycle lands are amazing. In the early game One tap land doesn’t usually matter and in the late game you absolutely don’t want to be drawing lands. Hard disagree.

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I know they're not great, but I love the slow fetch lands so much. They're ideal for powering down a deck because they slow your tempo down by a turn or two and that can let you keep playing bombs you love. They're also still legal in Conquest, and given how amazing that format is (normal Fetches are banned in it) - they have a welcome home there for me.

Don't worry Joey, the ATLA fans got your joke lol

100% agree with the utility lands that have good effects in theory, but in practice are brutally overcosted.

I've started an experiment with running Myriad Landscape in basically all of my decks. I had kind of forgotten about it until the recent Command Zone podcast episode on lands where they mentioned it was the most common colorless-mana-producing utility land that they've run in their Game Knights decks. It has two big strikes against it: it not only taps for colorless but also comes into play tapped...but it does let you add a ramp spell "for free" to your deck, and it's land ramp that goes into any color of deck. That same Command Zone episode also convinced me that I needed to add more lands to most of my decks, so I decided I might as well throw in Myriad Landscape as one of those extra lands.

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Tainted wood and Tainted Field are great for decks that only splash the green or white for Disenchant.

This is one of your best discussions so far! Partly because you got through the puns portion faster, but, also, the nuances of land selection are super important.

I think this topic is a big part of 'the format has gotten faster'

I think for the Snarl based lands the enemy color ones would make it into their two color decks then the ally ones. They haven't made several of the newer cycles into enemy color lands so you don't have a varient of the Battle for Zendicar or the Amoncat lands.

The filter lands that filter into two blue become useful in a blue deck because they can be used to convert a non-blue land into Counterspell mana. I wouldn't say they are spectacular, but I will say that I have had my butt saved more than once by the ability to turn that Mountain into 2U.

I saw the title and knew the Dana not playing basics joke was inevitable. I was not disappointed.

If you want a flash granting effect on a land, go with Emergence Zone. It’s a regular land that taps for mana and also there when you actually need it. It’s unrestricted, the effect cannot be removed once resolved, and it lets you pull off combos outside of main phases. People routinely forget about it too so you can catch people off guard. I have it in every commander deck atm. We’ll see if it makes the cut for Kelsien, there’s a lot of instances in there already.