I would like the land a lot more if it didn't sound like a stripper's name. However, it plays well and is super strong in green/blue Landfall. It's almost as essential to the deck as Wild Mongrel were to Green/Blue Madness.
Now the big question, will the whole cycle of ten be reprinted together at some point?
SavageBrain89
★★★★☆ (4.4/5.0)(4 votes)
@ong312: that would be awesome if the whole cycle of ten did get reprinted together, my gut feeling tells me that may very will be the case in Worldwake.
AUKingClow
★★★★☆ (4.8/5.0)(6 votes)
Or, they could reprint the whole set for a core set.
ZachCantrell
★★★★☆ (4.2/5.0)(3 votes)
Really love my playset :D This card helped fix the mana fixing issues my Finest Hour Aggro deck was having after the pain lands rotated out with 10th edition. It's nice to be able to win with that deck again. Can't wait to try it else where.
lickthemoose
★★★☆☆ (3.9/5.0)(5 votes)
yay pulled a foil n got 53 bucks on ebay for it go people willing to over pay for something thats new
still a great card but not 50 bucks great
Chrs84
★★★☆☆ (3.8/5.0)(2 votes)
Yeah, reprinting would be sweet, especially when prices jump, it stinks. I do respect a fair value system.
I recently split a box of Zendikar with 3 other people and scored 2 sejiri refuge, 1 oran-rief, 1 nissa's chosen, and 1 Nissa Revane !!! I swear lol got a bunch of other cool cards too, some ally, an angel, etc.
I know folks will compare these new lands to the ones already out there, especially lands that are doing the same thing, that's cool, everyone's doing their thing but I think the point is having more kinds of nonbasic doing the same thing, you know it promotes multi color decks, helps a bit when the older lands get pricey, and when a really well put together 5 color deck comes along it truly is something to see! :)
VirtueVsVice
★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0)(2 votes)
I'm a singles-buying man, but one day my friend convinced me to buy a Zendikar pack. Imagine my surprise when this was my rare =D
drhank024
★☆☆☆☆ (1.2/5.0)(7 votes)
Don't get it, isn't this just land that costs a point of life? Would rather have a common land
HairlessThoctar
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
@DrHank. No you don't.
This cycle is very very good. Being able to pull lands out of your deck so you don't draw them next draw step is amazing, and they combo beautifully with non-basic lands with basic land types like these: http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Search/Default.aspx?text=+++&format=&type=+ .
Single colored decks can do without, but they are almost certainly a must have for multi-color decks.
A3Kitsune
★★★★☆ (4.9/5.0)(4 votes)
Best art of the fetch-lands.
And it can fetch a creature!
BonesawJoe
★★★★☆ (4.7/5.0)(6 votes)
Holy crap Ong, it does sound like a stripper name. I never would have thought of that before.
MojoVince
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(2 votes)
Yes that cost 1 life for in single land but this one life able you to choose two land type and i realy think this is just hell great because you do with the color of spells you have in hand .
The just imagine in a fourth colored deck , 12 of these and 2 lands of each type that just might be very playable i think .
Stu15
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(4 votes)
This was my Shiny, didn't seem worth it at first, but i guess its pretty good, worth loads as a shiny as well D:
Gear61
★★★★☆ (4.2/5.0)(5 votes)
How is this card rated below 4.5?
Buridan
★★☆☆☆ (2.0/5.0)(3 votes)
I think Evolving Wilds is better - sure it puts the land into play tapped, but you can choose any pasic land and don't have to pay 1 life and I don't understand why this is rare - uncommon would be better
gongshowninja
★★★★☆ (4.1/5.0)(7 votes)
Did... MasterOfEtherium comment without capitalizing every word?
My mind is blown.
Great card, btw. Solid in a Bant deck.
BrokenBoySoldier
★☆☆☆☆ (1.8/5.0)(4 votes)
strange combo- green and blue, surely white and green or green and red would make much more sense
EvilCleavage
★★☆☆☆ (2.6/5.0)(4 votes)
It doesn't even sound like a strippers name. Maybe if it was Misty Stainforest, then I'd get it. Anyways, these are better than evolving wilds etc. because the fact that it comes into play untapped. You would seriously be suprised how often you wish that it could have come into play untapped. If you can run these, do it. If your running 4 or 5 colors, run a few of each, and a couple evolving wilds.
tantallum99
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(8 votes)
so many reasons these zendikar fetch lands are great:
1. find just the right land you need at the moment
2. the land you find doesn't come into play tapped!
3. activate landfall twice
4. thin your deck of land
5. for when you need a library shuffle
so worth the 1 life investment
TheWrathofShane
★★★☆☆ (3.6/5.0)(11 votes)
I MEAN COMMON PEOPLE IS A LAND, MAKE IT UNCOMMON AT LEAST!
I see absolutly no reason why these and many other "Rare" land cycles need to be in the rare slots. Would it really kill the game if the ravanica shock lands where uncommons? I mean, people are going to get a playset either way. All that would happen is that ude see casual full of the elite lands which would be great for the game. And then wotc would have more rare slots to fill, instead of filling it with a LANDS...
Oh yea, and they wouldnt be 10 bucks a pop for a FREAKING LAND!!!!
MasterOfEtherium
★☆☆☆☆ (1.8/5.0)(9 votes)
No That Aint Me Bro Bastard Just Stole My Name I Was Reading The Comment And I Was Like When Did I Say This. Terramorphic Expanse And Evolving Wilds Suck. FETCHLANDS RULES.
Gabriel422
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0)(6 votes)
I absolutely hate the fact that the theme spanning most cards in Zendikar, landfall, almost requires you to have these highly sought after lands. The existence of these new fetchlands is the only reason that I never played with my Zektar Shrine Expeditions and Steppe Lynxes. I could play with Terramorphic Expanse, but I'd much rather make a first-class Eldrazi Green than a landfall deck that I know would have been inferior.
It's a bad thing for a bunch of common cards to depend on a rare cycle. To many players like myself, landfall as a mechanic might as well never has existed. And it's Wizards's loss that I didn't grab my sets of Rampaging Baloths and Lotus Cobras, cards that would have been easy sells.
Shiny_Espeon
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
I guess this is one of those skilltester cards. Anyone who is bad will say that this card sucks, and anyone who knows anything knows how great this card is.
And for those who complain about the pricetag, this card sees play in literally every format, so there are tons of people who want this card. And the people who play vintage and legacy are willing to spend 50+ dollars on a land, (See Underground sea) so they are certainly wiling to shell out 10 dollars for these beauties.
JoshMagic
★★★★☆ (4.8/5.0)(2 votes)
@ Thewrathofshame/ MasterofIdiocy
ok then, lets just make every good rare you can think of an uncommon too.
good land are valuable, this is my point, and saying "I mean, people are going to get a playset either way" applies to things other than just land. if R&D followed your logic, then they would make other good rares into uncommons... i.e. Vampire Nocturnus and Primeval Titan for example.
my conclusion is that great lands are just as good as great not-lands. both types of cards are equally valuable. you can't win a game with just land (exception = valakut) and you can't win without lands (exception = mox/preety flowers)
and just to spite you, i'm going to the card shoppe to buy 4.
Also, tantallum99 is a smart player, unlike you two.
BlackAlbino
★☆☆☆☆ (1.8/5.0)(2 votes)
@MasterOfEtherium how is it that you haven't picked up on why all your comments are voted down astounds me
@MasterOfEtherlum terramorphic expanse and evolving wilds can't fetch dual-lands / shock-lands. and losing that turn is very important your essentially paying one mana to use terramorphic or wilds over any other fetch. one life is easily worth that one mana so you don't screw up your tempo.and unless your playing a 3+ color deck in standard or a 5 color deck in an eternal format the fetchlands are strictly better. and your mana-fixing shouldn't be a problem worth sacrificing tempo for unless your playing 4-5 colors anyway. even then all you have to do is play a variety of fetches and you should be covered.
Mitch_360
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I couldn't play my MUC deck without these...Brainstorm FTW!
PwNaGe712
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
i got this back when i was so new to magic, it was pathetic. so i traded it for wrthless cards that stayed in my deck for a week or less. and HE traded it for emrakul. this card has baaad memories
zfabaksem
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
I have a question... are these fetchlands considered lands of a certain type? Because they allow you to search your deck for a non-basic land, could you use a Misty Rainforest to pull out a Flooded Strand? From what I can tell, there is no reason why you shouldn't be able to do this.
Im asking because im building a mill deck based around Hedron Crab, and if its possible to do this, you could stack the landfall on turn 2 and (although you would burn your health away), you could rack up an easy 40+ card mill.
Same could be done with Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle, although not to such a high extent, and pull off a massive burn once you have 5 mountains out.
Basically, it just seems too good to be true. The deck may be expensive to make, but it would most definitely be tourney worthy as it cant be countered or stopped easily.
MasterOfEtherlum
★★☆☆☆ (2.0/5.0)(3 votes)
Gabba Gabba Goo AHAHAHAHAHaaaaa
zenitramleirdag
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
that is refreshing artwork..
adrian.malacoda
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
@zfabaksem
Lands are only considered to be of a certain type if that type appears next to "Land" in the text, which is exactly the same as how creature types work. Misty Rainforest only works for a Forest or an Island, which will have "Land - Forest" or "Land - Island" in that space.
Some lands, like Breeding Pool, are both a Forest and an Island, so they work with this land's ability. Even if a land is only one of the required types (say, Hallowed Fountain, which is a Plains and an Island) this land's ability will work with it.
Flooded Strand is neither a Forest nor an Island (nor is Valakut a Mountain, since it doesn't specify "Land - Mountain" in the text)
I've noticed that land types tend to be confusing, since most non-basic lands are typeless, save for Desert, Urzatron, Lairs, and Loci. It's also confusing because some lands that clearly look like one type (like this one actually depicts a kind of forest) actually aren't. Of particular note here is Island of Wak-Wak, whose rulings explicitly state that it is not an Island, despite the fact that it ostensibly represents some kind of island. As it turns out, every other land with the word "Island" in its name actually is an Island card.
This unfortunately isn't true of the word "Forest" (despite the fact that they all, save for Misty Rainforest here, produce green mana, so they should logically be Forests), so don't assume a land is a Forest just because the art and/or the name convey a forest.
Discoduck
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@BrokenBoySoldier - You can obviously combine any colors in magic to great effect, including enemy colors. Cards can combo no matter the colors of each piece.
KokoshoForPresident
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Warning! This is MasterOfEtherlum, not MOE. Be careful that you know which one you are dealing with.
Kirbster
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
This card is so frusturating. The art is absolutely beautiful, but to make any use of it you just throw it away. So tragic....
sandwich12345
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(3 votes)
this card is absolutely horrific. Its a crappy terramorphic expanse, it hurts me deeply to see people say this card is good because its one of the most crappy things i have ever seen in my life. It should be 5 cents
SkyknightXi
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
@Sandwich12345: Actually, there are important ways this differs from Terramorphic Expanse.
1. The card enters play untapped with this cycle. The Expanse brings you a tapped land. Important for keeping up mana tempo. 2. The Expanse can only bring you a basic land. This cycle isn't so constrained. Notice that it only says "Forest or Island", NOT "Basic Forest or Island". So you can potentially get things like Breeding Pool, Tropical Island, Dryad Arbor, Moonring Island, or Sapseep Forest. Those first two are the really important ones.
lungsoftheocean
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Lets talk about how awesome this card is with a hypothetical Bant T1-T3-
This cycle of lands is just ridiculous. I mean, they go hand-in-hand with the Alpha Dual Lands like Tropical Island AND Shocklands such as Breeding Pool. I would even say they are better than their Onslaught ally-colored counterparts because even though these are cheaper and easier to find, they are allowed in two major formats (Modern and Legacy) instead of just Legacy. It doesn't matter whether they are enemy colored or not because you only need one of the parameters to find a specific land. If it wasn't for this land or the other four, many decks would have a VERY tough time mana fixing if they weren't playing green. These lands are definitely one of the cornerstones of competitive Magic. For that reason, I can't rate them any lower than 5/5.
Kryptnyt
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Look at me... You can get a rushing river, or a tree. With as much as a tap and a ping, Make one final stand. Crack a Misty, and fetch out a land.
Casey130
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Is this card worth putting in a mono-green deck? My only lands are forests but the thinning is really nice especially for cards like Leaf-Crowned Elder
From a Modern standpoint, between this cycle, the shock lands, the tap lands, the filter lands, and whatever Future Sight lands are in the colors you're playing, literally the only reason anyone plays any basics is to search for because of Path. Either that, or because you're willing to have a sub-optimal deck and save $500. This honestly brings tears to my eyes at how far Magic has fallen in terms of design / balance and how much of a blatant cash grab this game has become.
Upsides to these lands: Get either of two colors or any applicable shockland at instant speed and ETB untapped so no loss of speed, fill graveyard with fodder for Goyf / DR Shaman / whatever, thin your deck out of lands because it pulls 2 cards out of your deck instead of 1, triggers landfall effects twice off of one land and at instant speed, can be pulled out of graveyard for multiple land drops off one card for Loam or KoR or whatever.
Downsides to these lands: Pay 1 life (literally never matters unless you're playing against burn, which isn't really a viable deck due to being over-hosed by Leyline of Sanctity / Kor Firewalker / Kitchen Finks / Timely Reinforcements / other friends), must pay $50 per land.
I miss old, interesting, well designed cards with REAL drawbacks to them like Phyrexian Negator that can have great power at great cost and require skillful playing and to be designed around. Nowadays we get Phyrexian Obliterator herp derp cast me and turn sideways.
But I'm getting off topic. Yeah, these lands are straight overpowered. 5/5 without contention. If you're willing eat the bs WOTC is feeding you and shell out the big bucks to optimize your deck then go for it Spike. You and Hasbro have all of my contempt.
Black-Blue
★★☆☆☆ (2.5/5.0)(1 vote)
I decided to go through my card collection yesterday...
I found this in foil and went to check the retail price... O .o Also found a Verdant Catacombs non foil.
I'm not sure what to do with them. Will they see a reprint? I don't know. I got them when I was more casual and I was probably diasappointed to get them thinking they weren't as good as rare creatures but never traded them. I had no idea and just threw them in with my lands for ages.
Insane cards. Insane.
SirLibraryEater
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I like fetchlands because if they gain a mana ability, they become just 1-life deck shufflers.
Comments (46)
Now the big question, will the whole cycle of ten be reprinted together at some point?
still a great card but not 50 bucks great
I recently split a box of Zendikar with 3 other people and scored 2 sejiri refuge, 1 oran-rief, 1 nissa's chosen, and 1 Nissa Revane !!! I swear lol got a bunch of other cool cards too, some ally, an angel, etc.
I know folks will compare these new lands to the ones already out there, especially lands that are doing the same thing, that's cool, everyone's doing their thing but I think the point is having more kinds of nonbasic doing the same thing, you know it promotes multi color decks, helps a bit when the older lands get pricey, and when a really well put together 5 color deck comes along it truly is something to see! :)
No you don't.
This cycle is very very good.
Being able to pull lands out of your deck so you don't draw them next draw step is amazing, and they combo beautifully with non-basic lands with basic land types like these: http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Search/Default.aspx?text=++
Single colored decks can do without, but they are almost certainly a must have for multi-color decks.
And it can fetch a creature!
The just imagine in a fourth colored deck , 12 of these and 2 lands of each type that just might be very playable i think .
and I don't understand why this is rare - uncommon would be better
My mind is blown.
Great card, btw. Solid in a Bant deck.
1. find just the right land you need at the moment
2. the land you find doesn't come into play tapped!
3. activate landfall twice
4. thin your deck of land
5. for when you need a library shuffle
so worth the 1 life investment
I see absolutly no reason why these and many other "Rare" land cycles need to be in the rare slots. Would it really kill the game if the ravanica shock lands where uncommons? I mean, people are going to get a playset either way. All that would happen is that ude see casual full of the elite lands which would be great for the game. And then wotc would have more rare slots to fill, instead of filling it with a LANDS...
Oh yea, and they wouldnt be 10 bucks a pop for a FREAKING LAND!!!!
It's a bad thing for a bunch of common cards to depend on a rare cycle. To many players like myself, landfall as a mechanic might as well never has existed. And it's Wizards's loss that I didn't grab my sets of Rampaging Baloths and Lotus Cobras, cards that would have been easy sells.
And for those who complain about the pricetag, this card sees play in literally every format, so there are tons of people who want this card. And the people who play vintage and legacy are willing to spend 50+ dollars on a land, (See Underground sea) so they are certainly wiling to shell out 10 dollars for these beauties.
ok then, lets just make every good rare you can think of an uncommon too.
good land are valuable, this is my point, and saying "I mean, people are going to get a playset either way" applies to things other than just land. if R&D followed your logic, then they would make other good rares into uncommons... i.e. Vampire Nocturnus and Primeval Titan for example.
my conclusion is that great lands are just as good as great not-lands. both types of cards are equally valuable. you can't win a game with just land (exception = valakut) and you can't win without lands (exception = mox/preety flowers)
and just to spite you, i'm going to the card shoppe to buy 4.
Also, tantallum99 is a smart player, unlike you two.
how is it that you haven't picked up on why all your comments are voted down astounds me
@MasterOfEtherlum
terramorphic expanse and evolving wilds can't fetch dual-lands / shock-lands. and losing that turn is very important your essentially paying one mana to use terramorphic or wilds over any other fetch. one life is easily worth that one mana so you don't screw up your tempo.and unless your playing a 3+ color deck in standard or a 5 color deck in an eternal format the fetchlands are strictly better. and your mana-fixing shouldn't be a problem worth sacrificing tempo for unless your playing 4-5 colors anyway. even then all you have to do is play a variety of fetches and you should be covered.
Im asking because im building a mill deck based around Hedron Crab, and if its possible to do this, you could stack the landfall on turn 2 and (although you would burn your health away), you could rack up an easy 40+ card mill.
Same could be done with Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle, although not to such a high extent, and pull off a massive burn once you have 5 mountains out.
Basically, it just seems too good to be true. The deck may be expensive to make, but it would most definitely be tourney worthy as it cant be countered or stopped easily.
Lands are only considered to be of a certain type if that type appears next to "Land" in the text, which is exactly the same as how creature types work. Misty Rainforest only works for a Forest or an Island, which will have "Land - Forest" or "Land - Island" in that space.
Some lands, like Breeding Pool, are both a Forest and an Island, so they work with this land's ability. Even if a land is only one of the required types (say, Hallowed Fountain, which is a Plains and an Island) this land's ability will work with it.
Flooded Strand is neither a Forest nor an Island (nor is Valakut a Mountain, since it doesn't specify "Land - Mountain" in the text)
I've noticed that land types tend to be confusing, since most non-basic lands are typeless, save for Desert, Urzatron, Lairs, and Loci. It's also confusing because some lands that clearly look like one type (like this one actually depicts a kind of forest) actually aren't. Of particular note here is Island of Wak-Wak, whose rulings explicitly state that it is not an Island, despite the fact that it ostensibly represents some kind of island. As it turns out, every other land with the word "Island" in its name actually is an Island card.
This unfortunately isn't true of the word "Forest" (despite the fact that they all, save for Misty Rainforest here, produce green mana, so they should logically be Forests), so don't assume a land is a Forest just because the art and/or the name convey a forest.
1. The card enters play untapped with this cycle. The Expanse brings you a tapped land. Important for keeping up mana tempo.
2. The Expanse can only bring you a basic land. This cycle isn't so constrained. Notice that it only says "Forest or Island", NOT "Basic Forest or Island". So you can potentially get things like Breeding Pool, Tropical Island, Dryad Arbor, Moonring Island, or Sapseep Forest. Those first two are the really important ones.
T1-Forest->Noble Hierarch
T2-Sunpetal Grove->Knight of the Reliquary
T3-Lotus Cobra->Misty Rainforest->Sack the Rainforest for Forest->Activate Knight of the Reliquary to find another Misty Rainforest->Sack the Rainforest for another Forest.->hard cast Gisela, Blade of Goldnight or Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite or Gaea's Revenge or Novablast Wurm or ... you get the point.
That's seven usable mana turn 3.
If you think Misty Rainforest is terrible then you don't understand Magic.
You can get a rushing river, or a tree.
With as much as a tap and a ping,
Make one final stand.
Crack a Misty, and fetch out a land.
I would.
May I also suggest:
1) Verdant Catacombs, windswept heath, and wooded foothills
2) Terramorphic Expanse and evolving wilds. Although they will cause them to enter tapped.
3) grasslands,and mountain valley although they enters tapped
4) bant panorama, jund panorama, and naya panorama although they take an additional mana source to equal group 2.
From a Modern standpoint, between this cycle, the shock lands, the tap lands, the filter lands, and whatever Future Sight lands are in the colors you're playing, literally the only reason anyone plays any basics is to search for because of Path. Either that, or because you're willing to have a sub-optimal deck and save $500. This honestly brings tears to my eyes at how far Magic has fallen in terms of design / balance and how much of a blatant cash grab this game has become.
Upsides to these lands: Get either of two colors or any applicable shockland at instant speed and ETB untapped so no loss of speed, fill graveyard with fodder for Goyf / DR Shaman / whatever, thin your deck out of lands because it pulls 2 cards out of your deck instead of 1, triggers landfall effects twice off of one land and at instant speed, can be pulled out of graveyard for multiple land drops off one card for Loam or KoR or whatever.
Downsides to these lands: Pay 1 life (literally never matters unless you're playing against burn, which isn't really a viable deck due to being over-hosed by Leyline of Sanctity / Kor Firewalker / Kitchen Finks / Timely Reinforcements / other friends), must pay $50 per land.
I miss old, interesting, well designed cards with REAL drawbacks to them like Phyrexian Negator that can have great power at great cost and require skillful playing and to be designed around. Nowadays we get Phyrexian Obliterator herp derp cast me and turn sideways.
But I'm getting off topic. Yeah, these lands are straight overpowered. 5/5 without contention. If you're willing eat the bs WOTC is feeding you and shell out the big bucks to optimize your deck then go for it Spike. You and Hasbro have all of my contempt.
I found this in foil and went to check the retail price... O .o
Also found a Verdant Catacombs non foil.
I'm not sure what to do with them.
Will they see a reprint? I don't know.
I got them when I was more casual and I was probably diasappointed to get them thinking they weren't as good as rare creatures but never traded them.
I had no idea and just threw them in with my lands for ages.
Insane cards. Insane.