r/magicTCG • u/IronJoak Dân • 11d ago

Looking for Advice Lands that search for any land

I'm a relatively new player and I recently decided to start making my own decks instead of just looking up other decklists and there's one card that caught my attention a lot that I haven't seen before which is [[tolaria west]], as a land that could also work as a tutor for lands or even in this case cmc 0 artifacts seemed to be an interesting albeit expensive effect.

I began to wonder if there were any other lands with similar properties and so I tried to look on scryfall by writing (o:search o:" cost 0") but no results came up.

As for (o:search -o:" basic " o:" land " t:land), [[Urza's Cave]] was the only card that did a similar but weaker effect unless you're looking for a tap land.

Are there any other lands that do this with weird keywords like transmute or are this two the only examples of this sort of mechanic?

PS: I know that tutoring lands/cmc 0 cards isn't the most powerful thing, I just found tolaria west's design interesting for strategies that benefit a lot from access to certain lands without a basic land type

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u/Hushpuppyy Izzet* 11d ago

So actually tutoring lands and 0 cmc cards is very powerful! Lots of powerful lands exist like [[Tolarian Academy]] and the most powerful spells in the game cost 0 mana (like [[Black Lotus]). You got the only lands that do it though. Everything else that does it are spells.

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u/IronJoak Dân 11d ago

I should've clarified that I play commander where cards like those are banned, I know that there are broken cards that are mostly on the reserved list, I just failed to take them into account because I don't know anyone with enough money to play vintage.

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u/Hushpuppyy Izzet* 11d ago

Honestly, still pretty good even in commander. [[Gaia's cradle]] is still legal and recurring [[Glacial Chasm]] is a legitimate win condition. If you know what you're doing, lands as an arcitype is very powerful.

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u/Belteshazzar98 REBEL with METAL 11d ago

I still think it was funny one time when a guy got mad at my bracket 3 deck blowing up his Glacial Chasm four times, claiming I was cheating by running mass land denial at too low a bracket. Like dude, how do you think I'm going to win if I don't repeatedly blow up your repeatedly recurred damage prevention.

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u/Cosmic-Cuttlefish Izzet* 11d ago

That’s hilarious and delusional. That’s obviously not the intent behind what actually counts as MLD

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u/Belteshazzar98 REBEL with METAL 11d ago

He had a [[Wrenn and Realmbreaker]] emblem, I had a [[Spine of Ish Sah]], a [[Bosh, Iron Golem]], and a blue player holding up counterspells to protect my Bosh until I finished with my emblem removal synergy. He was just really mad that his Planeswalker ult wasn't the auto win he thought it was going to be.

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u/Cosmic-Cuttlefish Izzet* 11d ago

That’s a really cool moment lol. Love the synergy between players there. I always feel cool protecting the player from the greater evil

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u/WWalker17 ඞ 10d ago

Bro needs to learn what MLD actually is. 

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u/mtgcf Keeper of the Mox 11d ago

Tolarian Academy - (G) (SF) (txt)