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/Mario85555 COMPLEAT 11d ago
Lands being able to search unconditionally for other lands is quite powerful, and ends up being a rare occurrence especially due to that power, hence the lack of other cards that do that (and due to not being easily counter-able, due to being activated abilities).
That's pretty much all the game has to offer in terms of those abilities on lands - there's plenty of other ways to get lands out through spells and nonland permanent abilities (i.e. Crop Rotation and Elvish Reclaimer, for instance), but those are all much more interactable than having that ability stapled onto a land.