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Feb 9, 2013 -- 11:55AM, bay_falconer wrote:

We could borrow something from the Karoo cycle:

Entropy's River

Land

When ~ ETB, return a land you control to its owner's hand.

: Add or to your mana pool.

Technically, it's weaker than a tapland, usually , but it still might find a place, and you can tap a land, play it, and then tap it for two mana.

Or, borrowing from the shocklands:

Rakdos Dungeon

Land -- Swamp Mountain

When ~ ETB, you lose 1 life.

I like the river, though it doesn't feel very common; Its very niche, and I've always thought bouncelands belonged at uncommon or even rare. 
The dungeon feels like it needs to lose the basic land types, but then it feels OK, about on par with my heal land.

Not in infect. In general. I'm not particularly worried about infect getting another cheap dual.

The first land (heal them) seems fine. 3 life is a good number. Even a control deck will feel their clock slowed down by a turn if they use too much of these. Sure there will be a few odd decks that don't care about giving the opponent life, well who cares if some niche decks get a slightly better mana base?


The second land seems fine, I made something similar a while ago

Legendary land
Play with your hand revealed
T: Add one of any color to your mana pool


Third one has memory issues, don't like it as much.

Fourth one seems like it could let you tap for any color - it sorta reminds me of  Springleaf Drum . Sure it would obsolete Shimmering Grotto but does anyone even use that card?

The difference between a dual and a fetch (if the fetch could only grab basics) are actually pretty relevant. In a 2 color deck it doesn't seem like much except letting you cast a spell for u on turn 1 and then a spell for bb on turn 2, but in a 3 or more color deck, if you start with a mountain and a u/b dual you're fine, if you start with a mountain and a u/b fetch, what do you fetch?

I do like the idea of the shockland that doesnt let you choose whether to be shocked, but it probably still has to be 2 damage. I wonder if a land that could produce 3 colors of mana would be fair if you took a forced shock when it cip.