This thread is for the discussion of all things Basic Land. The Pro's and Con's of using snow-covered basics. Displaying your pimp basic lands. Questions about how many and how to distribute your basic lands. Etc.
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I played against a guy that put models in bikinis on his lands so that we would be distracted when he tryed to sneak a landstill into play. I chuckled.
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You always hear about the games armageddon wins 100% of the time. You never hear about the game that it rots in your hand and you get beatdown.
Personally I think it's more pimp not to have snow basics, since there's more variety in the arts you can choose, easier to get foils, access to textless/extended art versions, special promos like APAC/Arena/Guru/MPS etc.
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I've always had kind of a thing for collecting cool basic lands (read: obsession). I've been collecting them for over 10 years and have several long boxes full of them. I have always tried to use the lands which compliment my cube the most. Here is my current configuration:
Main Cube: 250 Urza's Saga Foil
Backup Cube: 250 Korean BB 4th Edition
Artifact Cube: 250 Japanese Mirage
Past configs:
All Unglued
All Foil Ice Age (Arena)
All Korean Tempest
I started collecting foil Unhinged lands, but I actually didn't like them very much, so I stopped. If money was no option I would probably do something like this:
Mountain - Arabian Nights
Forest - Summer
Plains - Great Wall or Sunflower APAC/EURO
Island - Foil Japanese INV Island B
Swamp - a nice dark looking Beta or probably the ghost APAC
My Main Cube is just some hansom Zendikar Full Art + lands I really like the art.
My Pauper Cube lands are singleton, and it feels really cool when no lands in play are the same, the opposite to most cubes. I really like it.
I went overboard, waaaaay overboard, on my sleeved lands. I have about 80 for each color, and around half of those are foil ZEN/UNH lands, the rest are just the prettiest, black bordered, lands I could find.
Except the plains. The non-foils are proxied using pictures of plain-looking women.
Here are my basics. I currently use MM arena promos, with the Skittles Plains:
The MM promos are hard to tell...here is a regular MM Island next to a promo MM Island:
Regular on the left, promo on the right.
But my new project is the following, and I current stand at about 25 each of these lands:
I think the colors are just outstanding, and throughout history John Avon's lands have always had amazing art. I have about 12-15 of each now, but need to obtain at least 30 of each (35 for Island). I won't object to PM's of what you have available for trade, ha!
I am trying to get basic lands from each of the different sets to help anyone who drafts Symbol Status. Its also nice since everyone has different favorite sets and basic lands that are iconic to them. This way everyone can have the lands they like the most. One player in my group likes to get as many foils as he can. Another likes all the full art from Zendikar and the Unsets. Someone always takes as many lands from Tempest and Mirage as they can get. I like the Shadowmoor Island, Onslaught Forest, or pretty much anything else since its all pretty great.
I am trying to get all foil snow covered, they are harder to find then you expect :/
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Does anyone know a good place to pick up large quanties of Full-Art lands? Either Zen or Unglued/Unhinged. I'm looking for reasonable prices.
yeah, i have the zendikar lands but i also want to get bulk un lands. what is the value of these cards? how do the zendikar lands compare to the two unset lands?
When I see Healing Salve, I'm often like "Oh girl, I wish I could turn every card into this." Thanks they removed the gain life part, otherwise this would have been broken.
I ended up going through MTG Salvation's visual card spoiler and picking out 30 of each basic land type with the art I love the most or thought was the best. So my basic lands might seem really random to somebody going through my land pile. But I love it!
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I ended up going through MTG Salvation's visual card spoiler and picking out 30 of each basic land type with the art I love the most or thought was the best. So my basic lands might seem really random to somebody going through my land pile. But I love it!
So is it 30 different arts for each basic land type or do you have 5 different pictures you printed 30 of each?
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So is it 30 different arts for each basic land type or do you have 5 different pictures you printed 30 of each?
It's 30 different arts for each of the basic land types = 150 different arts. I'm in the process of collecting them now. I didn't include Guru lands because meh to $50 lands. Although they are pretty pimp, I like other arts better.
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I spent a bit of time watching Ebay and was able to get Unhinged land cards for an average value of around $1.50 each. There seemed to be fairly frequent bulk auctions on the order of 20ish of the various lands. I ended up with way more than I needed, but I'm too lazy to re-list them.
I probably agonized more of what I wanted to do for the basic lands more so than any other aspect of the cube. I am happy that I went with the Unhinged land.
When I first started building my cube I wanted to get 35 matching foil basics of old bordered sets. But there really wasn't a mountain or plains I liked printed in the old borders. Eventually they printed one I did like in the new borders and I realized that my favorite Island, Swamp, and Forest were also printed in the new borders so I slowly made the switch. I only ever finished getting the foil Islands and now I have nothing to do with them. Anyone interested in them? 35 Palm tree islands. 34 english 1 Chinese.
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Unless you are playing against a Land Destruction wielding scrub (me) in a Legacy tournament and you lose game 3 to an Icequake
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I know grand acolyte. And that is a true story. As I result I use snow-covered basics in my casual decks now.
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Main Cube: 250 Urza's Saga Foil
Backup Cube: 250 Korean BB 4th Edition
Artifact Cube: 250 Japanese Mirage
Past configs:
All Unglued
All Foil Ice Age (Arena)
All Korean Tempest
I started collecting foil Unhinged lands, but I actually didn't like them very much, so I stopped. If money was no option I would probably do something like this:
Mountain - Arabian Nights
Forest - Summer
Plains - Great Wall or Sunflower APAC/EURO
Island - Foil Japanese INV Island B
Swamp - a nice dark looking Beta or probably the ghost APAC
That'd probably cost me more than my cube!
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My Pauper Cube lands are singleton, and it feels really cool when no lands in play are the same, the opposite to most cubes. I really like it.
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Except the plains. The non-foils are proxied using pictures of plain-looking women.
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The MM promos are hard to tell...here is a regular MM Island next to a promo MM Island:
Regular on the left, promo on the right.
But my new project is the following, and I current stand at about 25 each of these lands:
I think the colors are just outstanding, and throughout history John Avon's lands have always had amazing art. I have about 12-15 of each now, but need to obtain at least 30 of each (35 for Island). I won't object to PM's of what you have available for trade, ha!
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yeah, i have the zendikar lands but i also want to get bulk un lands. what is the value of these cards? how do the zendikar lands compare to the two unset lands?
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So is it 30 different arts for each basic land type or do you have 5 different pictures you printed 30 of each?
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It's 30 different arts for each of the basic land types = 150 different arts. I'm in the process of collecting them now. I didn't include Guru lands because meh to $50 lands. Although they are pretty pimp, I like other arts better.
I probably agonized more of what I wanted to do for the basic lands more so than any other aspect of the cube. I am happy that I went with the Unhinged land.
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While I still had the camera outI took a picture of my common's cube basic lands. 150 Summer Magic basics... Ok they are unlimited.
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