Should I get the M13 lands now?
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Posted on Nov. 27, 2013, 6:12 p.m. by dpac
Those dual lands have been printed from M10-M13. They've not been reprinted for M14.Are they likely to be reprinted again for M15 or probably not?If they are, now may be the best time to get them cheap.
With those lands, if you want them you could get them for your Modern-legal decks. if you do not plan on playing in that format, or in a format where those decks are legal, I would not spend the money on them. I am looking towards the future myself, and some of the stuff that will be rotating out next year I am looking at trading off to get some stuff that will be legal for 18+ months. This is my eye towards the future, but this is again the budgetting I do. If you have a little money to play with, and the ability to play in those kinds of tournaments (my area does not have many Modern tournaments, much to my chagrin), then I would look at them. If not, then I would steer away.
November 27, 2013 7:01 p.m.
Epochalyptik says... #4
There's a possibility they'll see an M15 reprint, but I think R&D may want to try a new dual cycle. Regardless, the check lands are good duals, and they're currently dirt cheap. I'm scooping them up for my deckbuilding collection.
November 27, 2013 7:12 p.m.
actiontech says... #5
Epochalyptik - do you mean you're collecting playsets of each to play with or you're collecting as many as you can reasonably get your hands on because you feel they're a good investment? I'm hoarding shocklands right now for long-term purposes, just wondering if you feel checklands are similarly worth picking up.
November 27, 2013 7:16 p.m.
Epochalyptik says... #6
@actiontech: The checks don't see much play in other formats except EDH. I'm grabbing playsets so I can use them in my own decks. Same for the pain lands.
November 27, 2013 7:17 p.m.
Didgeridooda says... #7
I think the lands like Cascade Bluffs will be reprinted next. What do you guys think?
November 27, 2013 7:41 p.m.
HarbingerJK says... #9
I'd much rather see the River of Tears cycle rather than Cascade Bluffs , but I also wouldn't mind it if they went with Sulfurous Springs cycle
November 27, 2013 7:54 p.m.
R&D has stated it wants to stop printing dual land cycles in core sets because of what it does to Block Constructed. Having only half guts a good chunk of Block's mana base, while printing a full, ten card cycle would mean removing dual lands from expansions. Otherwise, you'd end up with three sets of dual lands in Standard.
It's unlikely that check lands will be reprinted any time soon. They'd have to print them in an expansion, which doesn't give R&D room to try out new cylces or mechanics.
You're safe buying them up now, but don't expect their prices to go up again.
November 27, 2013 7:58 p.m.
Epochalyptik says... #11
The check lands aren't really a good spec anyway because there are so many of them out there. Even if they were reprinted, the price change would be negligible at this point (unless they somehow became the only good duals available in Standard).
@sylvannos: Can you source that information? It sounds accurate, but I want to read the post/announcement/etc.
November 27, 2013 8:03 p.m.
Epochalyptik says... #13
I've been waiting for the rest of the Nimbus Maze cycle ever since I first saw that card.
November 27, 2013 11:35 p.m.
HarbingerJK says... #14
Nimbus Maze would be awesome in my opinion...as long as they change that formatting lol
November 28, 2013 12:03 a.m.
I agree that 10 dual lands in a core set is a bit much... but at the same time, I feel that core sets should not completely exclude the mana fixing lands.
I would like to see something like a cycle of 5 lands. Each being able to tap for a specific colour, as well as having a "filter" option...
Something like:
New Land (Island version)
Land - Island
T: Add U to your mana pool.
1T: Add one mana of any colour to your mana pool.
Of course that means you could play 8 lands in a 2 colour deck, but the cost of filtering off sets that ability to play that many of them.
They would be usable in Limited and Standard, without breaking any format, and there would only be 5 land to print instead of 10.
November 28, 2013 10:09 a.m.
@Rayenous: It would probably have to come into play tapped (otherwise, it's strictly better than basics), but yeah, it'd be nice to get something like Vivid Grove or Terramorphic Expanse back into a core set.
November 29, 2013 2:50 a.m.
That's a tough question to answer. TLDR version is no don't bother unless you're going to play hard control or a two color deck "for sure".
I already have mine and if those end up being the new rare dual lands i'll be dissapointed. Sacred Foundry
and it's brothers have ruined things like Drowned Catacomb
for me.
Personally i'm hoping for lands like Graven Cairns
. Are they to powerful? Well if by powerful people mean they encourage multicolor decks like Sacred Foundry
then yes they are powerful. Except I would consider it much more "Fun-Enabling" than "powerful".
Even in a format with access to all of these shock lands right now top decks are still often Mono-Black or just two color. So I really hope they keep giving us powerful multicolor lands to let us be creative.
June 2, 2014 11:55 p.m.
@kengiczar: Can you not necro threads from 7 months ago?
HarbingerJK says... #2
yeah, they're very cheap at the moment. I can't say if they'll be reprinted in M15 but with shocks rotating out there are bound to be new duals
November 27, 2013 6:22 p.m.