Pain Lands VS Tainted Lands
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Posted on Jan. 16, 2014, 6:23 p.m. by guerillarage
I'm tweaking a manabase for one of my decks (contains swamps) and am not sure which I wanna run and want some opinions. Which do you prefer? I really don't want to run both because of things like Blood Moon .
Epochalyptik says... #3
@aeonstoremyliver: Lands like Tainted Isle . There are four - one for each non-Swamp BLT.
Pain lands are generally better unless half or more of your lands are Swamps. You don't want to run the tainted lands unless you have a very good chance of enabling them.
January 16, 2014 6:44 p.m.
guerillarage says... #4
Tainted Peak , Tainted Wood , etc. Notice how I didn't link to a deck? I want general opinions.
January 16, 2014 6:45 p.m.
TheLameSauce says... #6
Run tainted lands and 4x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
January 16, 2014 7:05 p.m.
guerillarage says... #7
I ws leaning towards pain lands as well. Every good deck runs a suicidal mana base it seems. Thanks all :-)
January 16, 2014 7:06 p.m.
Epochalyptik says... #10
If you're playing EDH, you're probably safest with pain lands. They'll always tap for the proper colors, and the life loss is not only barely relevant, it stops being an issue once you play enough other color sources.
January 16, 2014 9:41 p.m.
guerillarage says... #12
Well I do want to keep some basics so I had to make a choice.
January 17, 2014 1:37 p.m.
Hallowed_Titan says... #13
If it's primarily a black deck I'd vote tainted lands. Otherwise take the pain!
January 17, 2014 2:10 p.m.
Dookie1984 says... #14
If its EDH and you don't want both i say pain land.
aeonstoremyliver says... #2
Pain lands would be things like Yavimaya Coast , but what do you mean by 'Tainted Lands?'
Also, if you move this to the Deck Help forum and link your deck, more concrete answers could be given.
January 16, 2014 6:38 p.m.