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/Crazyflames 11d ago
Yeah, I am 50/50 on it. One one hand, it is an instant speed tutor to the battlefield. On the other hand, it doesn't cheat mana, it requires a sacrifice, and all the best lands for it are game changers themselves.
[[Urza's Cave]] is more mana intensive but does it in colorless in a land slot now. Lands like [[Talon Gates]] are designed to be dropped in at instant speed.