Best 100$ Budget "Tier-1 Styled" 5 Color Mana Base

Commander / EDH* Budget Casual Multiplayer Primer Theme/Gimmick

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Tap Fetch (10)

• 1x Ash Barrens
• 1x Bad River
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Fabled Passage
• 1x Flood Plain
• 1x Grasslands
• 1x Krosan Verge
• 1x Mountain Valley
• 1x Rocky Tar Pit
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse

Enemy Check Dual (5)

• 1x Clifftop Retreat
• 1x Hinterland Harbor
• 1x Isolated Chapel
• 1x Sulfur Falls
• 1x Woodland Cemetery

Triome (5)

• 1x Indatha Triome
• 1x Ketria Triome
• 1x Raugrin Triome
• 1x Savai Triome
• 1x Zagoth Triome

Basic (5)

• 1x Forest
• 1x Island
• 1x Mountain
• 1x Plains
• 1x Swamp

Battle Dual (5)

• 1x Canopy Vista
• 1x Cinder Glade
• 1x Prairie Stream
• 1x Smoldering Marsh
• 1x Sunken Hollow

Enemy Pain Dual (5)

• 1x Battlefield Forge
• 1x Caves of Koilos
• 1x Llanowar Wastes
• 1x Shivan Reef
• 1x Yavimaya Coast

Commander (1)

Specialty Multi Land (5)

• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Grand Coliseum
• 1x Murmuring Bosk
• 1x The World Tree

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Maybeboard

Honorable Mentions (18)

• 1x Ancient Ziggurat
• 1x Blighted Woodland
• 1x Cascading Cataracts
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Forbidden Orchard
• 1x Gemstone Caverns
• 1x Gemstone Mine
• 1x Interplanar Beacon
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 1x Meteor Crater
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Path of Ancestry
• 1x Prismatic Vista
• 1x Reflecting Pool
• 1x Spire of Industry
• 1x Tarnished Citadel
• 1x Thran Quarry
• 1x Unclaimed Territory

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This list includes Fetch Lands as well as Dual Lands with Basic Land Types just like Tier-1 Mana Bases! It's quite a bit slower than Tier-1, but it's hard to complain when you're saving so much money to play a casual format like EDH.

We welcome our new "Triome" lands ( Savai Triome ) in Ikoria!! They are upgrading the old cycling duals ( Fetid Pools ), bringing so much flexibility and consistency along with them. Currently they are destroying my 100$ budget, but they are so good its too hard to resist.

The new Zendikar mdfc duals might make the list too. Currently they are affordable.

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Why These Lands?

Along with fitting in the budget, all the lands in the mana base fall into at least one of these five categories:

Actual Basic Land:

• One of each Basic Land (not including Wastes ).
• You can run cards that tutor up basics like Solemn Simulacrum or get a land from Path to Exile .

Always Comes Into Play Untapped Duals

• Enemy Pain Duals.
• This category is in place currently to balance the color pie and speed up the mana base overall.

Provides Any Color Mana, Untapped If Possible :

• Specialty Multi-Lands and Honorable Mentions.
• The best EDH dual land is Command Tower .

Lands in Graveyard Synergy:

• Fetches & Cycling Duals.
• Works with effects that care about lands in the graveyard like Ramunap Excavator and Deathrite Shaman .

Basic Land Type Synergy:

• Check Duals, Fetches, Cycling Duals, and Battle Duals.
• Works with effects that care about land types like Farseek and Skyshroud Claim .

Why not include lands XYZ?

• See the "Why These Lands?" panel above. If the lands you are thinking about don't fit those criterion, that's why they're not here already.

• The shock lands are reprinted for standard, so they can probably be included since their prices are dropping so much. Obviously include them if you get any. They are definitely strict upgrades on basically any of the Dual lands in this Mana base, they just usually cost twice as much money.

Land Speed

• Taplands: x14 or 35%
• Checkland: x10 or 25%
• Untapped: x15 or 37.5%

Fetch vs. Land Percentage

• Fetch Only: x10 or 25%
• Taps for Mana: x32 or 80%

Basic Land Type Count

Number of Lands which have or fetch:

• Forest: x20 or 50% of Mana Base
• Island: x19 or 47.5%
• Plains: x19 or 47.5%
• Mountain: x19 or 47.5%
• Swamp: x18 or 45%

Mana Type Availability

Number of Lands which produce or fetch:

• : x26 or 65% of Mana Base
• : x25 or 62.5%
• : x25 or 62.5%
• : x25 or 62.5%
• : x25 or 62.5%
• : x7 or 17.5%

Land Cycle Breakdown

There are 8 Total Slots Available for a 5 Card Land Cycle with a 40 card Mana Base.

"Allied" Color Cycles: 1 Slots

• Mirage Tap-Fetch
• Battle for Zendikar Check Duals

"Enemy" Color Cycles: 2 Slots

• Innistrad Check Duals
• Apocalypse Pain Lands

"Wedge" Color Cycles: 1 Slot

• Ikoria Triomes

Basic Land: 1 Slot

Misc. Multi Color Lands: 2 Slots

Honorable Mentions

I have included a bunch of "Honorable Mentions" in the maybeboard. Many of which are potentially better than a bunch of the "Specialty Multi Lands" that are in the list right now, depending on your deck. For example, Spire of Industry needs artifacts to be good, Thran Quarry needs creatures, etc. Use the list to customize the mana base to maximize synergy with your deck.

Price Breakdown

The price fluctuates constantly, and it was also much cheaper when I first made this list. Price breakdown does not include x5 basic lands.

• Approx. Total for 35 Cards: $100.00
• Avg. Price Per Card: $2.85

The honorable mentions have even more budget options for some of the more pricey specialty multi-lands. The check lands being reprinted in Dominaria should lower their prices eventually too.

A Dream For The Future

I hope they finish a couple of the incomplete land cycles we are using here soon to really clean this list up. Specifically the Mirage tap fetches and the Ikoria Triomes.

I really want them to reprint shocklands and the good fetches and OG dual lands like a million times until they are cheapo and we can get as many as we want to use forever.

Any budget friendly suggestions are much appreciated! Especially when suggestions are accompanied by reasons and ideas of what to swap out! Thanks.

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