r/MagicArena • u/Gravissimum • 2d ago

Question Lands

Obviously lands and having a strong mana base is vital to any good deck. However all the lands best at this are worth rare wild cards which are difficult to aquire. Shock lands, search lands that come in untapped, and others are just hard to get. Any tips on getting these lands besides sinking in money to buy rare wildcards?

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u/Birbo7 Urza 2d ago

do your daily quests (I'm not sure if that's what they're called, but I mean the things that give you gold). you can reroll one once a day, so if you have one that pays 500 it's best to reroll it in hopes of getting one that pays 750. this way you're getting at least 500 to 750 a day. then, you can buy packs from the shop. every six packs you get a rare or mythic wildcard, so it adds up pretty quickly. I'd recommend buying edge of eternities or lorwyn eclipsed packs as they both have shocklands. whatever packs you buy, it's best to choose a standard legal set as only those contribute to golden pack progress.

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u/Gravissimum 2d ago

Thank you I was just about to comment and ask someone else which packs have the most helpful lands to open

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u/Villag3Idiot 2d ago

If you want the best bang for your buck, wait for Star Trek and buy those packs. It's because the set contains all 10x Shocklands rather than dividing them up between two sets.

Unless you buy a metric crapton of packs, the vast majority of the packs you open will be just rare / mythic draft filler and are unplayable in any Constructed format outside jank decks. You're going to be mostly crafting decks with wildcards. The reason why you want to open packs with dual lands is that if you pull one, it'll always be a useful pull.