Land Designs

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kefke - Thawing Frostlands: Making your basic lands snow lands in a different way. It’s something really small, as you can actually just put basic snow lands in to begin with, but this gives more options for snow vs not-snow permanents in design, as well as different kinds of counters in design, and this gives more options in card design in other cards. How broadly that design-space can be used well is to be seen, but it’s a good start.


Jartis - Forest’s Edge: Very powerful, having the forest enter untapped. You are obviously trying to limit this card’s power by having it only fetch basic forests, but it’s obscenely good, as it has no downside to it in a lot of low-cost monogreen decks like (pauper) elves though it is also banger in plenty other decks that like basics. It has nearly only upsides, as it thins your deck from lands (which often is preferred), it gives double landfall, and there now is a land card in your graveyard. For free, because otherwise you would have a forest card in your hand instead that you would play. Needs more downside.



Flo00 - Spellcraft Stadium: I want to liken your card to existing cards, so here: It’s a Shire Terrace, with no cost on the sac’n’search, but a condition to fulfill instead. That’s what it is, but it isn’t what it feels like. It loves being in multicolor storm or weenies, mostly ones that care about landfall or lands/cards in grave. It’s not an easy spot to live in as a card, but even if it might not be quickly sac’n’searched, it still is able to provide colorless if necessary. Really like the mechanics.



viriss - Hidden Cache: Hmmm, too many options for too little cost. It gives colorless, and it can do an Evolving Wilds as well, which is already a bit much. Then there is the other option of sacking it for a treasure instead of a tapped land. It needs more cost for what it does. Maybe it can be an upgrade to Evolving Wilds in that it can also become a treasure, but not give colorless mana. Or it can be moreso a Shire Terrace, where the treasure or fetching cost a mana. This one does too much for too little. The idea is pretty cool though.



vizionarius - Overburdened Rift: That’s a cool alternative way of fetching. It’s unfortunate that you cannot decide when this happens, though, because the basic enters tapped. But it is flavorful with the name. It being useful with tapping for colorless mana is necessary with a condition like this. Good stuff, but maybe it could either have the basic enter untapped, or have the card tap’n’sac’n’search on demand.



Daij_Djan - Decayed City: Nice use of the metalcraft condition, making it so you probably can’t use it turn 1, nerfing it a good deal. I could definitely see this making its way into a new modern horizons or something, where artifact lands are getting a small boost but keeping things below the original and banned artifact lands.



thaneofglamis - Roil-Torn Expanse: Something I gotta say, that is actually pretty cool. Unearth is a nice mechanic using it like this on a land. Only thing, it currently feels too cheap for getting two lands. Also, it feels kind of green, so either having the Unearth cost need green, or have the sac’n’fetch cost instead of , are ways of making it feel more appropriately costed. At least to me. And I’m currently judging.



boxlaunch - Reclaimed X: This actually addresses the complaints I had about Jartis’s Forest Edge, as it now costs something to play this card instead of a basic Forest: it denies you one colored mana when it is first used. And it might not be a very big cost, but it is still a cost which might need some more deck-building considerations. It still feels very powerful, but it also feels more appropriate.

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Flo00 ! With a shitton of others as follow ups, because those are some nice cards.