If you're running a deck with at least two of the three colors you should run these. If you're running all three colors (like me) you HAVE to run these (I run 2).
rubber
★★★☆☆ (3.4/5.0)(8 votes)
Not good unless you're using all three. There's plenty of better lands for any combination of 2 of those colors: Taiga, Stomping Ground, Overgrown Tomb, Bayou, Badlands, Bloodcrypt. There's plenty of others too. In the right deck, the correction is useful enough that the CIPT (or ETBT) is irrelevant, but not always.
Donovan_Fabian
★★★☆☆ (3.8/5.0)(3 votes)
I would say that I'd still run at least one of these in a deck even with stomping grounds, because it color fixes so well. Play opposite jungle shrine for a more green deck, or crumbling necropolis for more black. The only downside is hopefully not having to play it in your first 1-3 turns when you need mana the first turn you play it.
BobTheBuillder
★★★☆☆ (3.1/5.0)(5 votes)
favorite alara tri-land
(Jund is my favorite)
ivorythunder
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(4 votes)
The five tricolor lands of Shards of Alara are direct upgrades of the five tricolor lands of Homelands, with this being an upgrade of Koskun Keep.
ByGoblinsBeDriven
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0)(2 votes)
I really dig the flavor text here; it's a really cool de***ion for how chaotic Jund can be and how that chaos is self-perpetuated. Really cool.
bijart_dauth
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.6/5.0)(4 votes)
not the best land, even if your running all 3 collors i would rather just run lands that work for 2 of the combinations, even if it requires many. Sense i really, really hate ETBT
ElMikkino
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(2 votes)
I have two of these things, but Jund's my second least favourite Shard (after Esper), and the only guy I know with a Jund deck doesn't want them...
Polychromatic
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(3 votes)
One of my favorite pieces of flavor text, ever.
j_mindfingerpainter
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
Yeah, the flavor text makes up for a land having "land" in the name in my opinion.
Travelsonic
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
IMO, yeah ETB taped sucks - though given it can be tapped to add , , or to your mana pool - and without filtering mana (I.E paying of any color, by ing a creature or land, or through other means, then ing to filter that into a single , , or mana), I think it balances it out - just a matter of where you use this. Not useless in any sense - hell, not really bad in any sense of the word either.
questionflanger
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
I gave it 4/5 just for flavor text! Philosophical Lands?
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In the right deck, the correction is useful enough that the CIPT (or ETBT) is irrelevant, but not always.
(Jund is my favorite)