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I am incredibly surprised that they didn't use evolving wilds to replace this. I thought that was the entire reason that they made it in Rise. Even if Evolving wilds is more flavorful I like this better for nostalgia reason.

Now you can have 8x Terramorphic in Standard!

Aw man, I was hoping they'd print Evolving Wilds instead. I like the art better.

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Whats Not to love about the Time Spiral Common land Terramorghic Expanse? I'll tell you. Nothing! However The Flavor text should always be a part of Terramorghic Expanse. Thats why if I can help it I only use the Time Spiral print of this land.

I suspect they didn't use Evolving Wilds to replace this in Magic 2011 because for a decent amount of time, Evolving Wilds will remain in standard. Terramorphic Expanse was going to rotate out when 2010 left. Printing this in 2011 allows both cards to exist side by side increasing the viability of mana fixing for budget decks. This card is vitally important for good budget decks to have access to multiple colours.

Vinferra is right that is exactly why they didn't reprint evolving wilds

This card has become such a staple, it will be a peculiar day when they decide not to reprint or functionally reprint it.

Possibly the best card ever printed. However, when I say "best" I don't mean "most effective." I mean "improves Magic as a game the most." The second best is Evolving Wilds. Why do I say this? Because dual lands are rare and expensive. Sure, if you have the money you can get four of one or even several dual lands for each of your multicolored decks and that would almost always be better than these cards, but when you're just playing casually or can't afford to buy expensive lands as singles because you're spending your budget on other key cards, these are great multicolor enablers. Since you can have up to eight of these in a deck, you can even play five colors smoothly if you're willing to sacrifice the speed of untapped lands. This keeps budget from limiting the colors you can play, which opens up a lot of the fun of Magic to players at any level.

This or evolving wilds go into almost any multicolor deck I make. Terrific mana fixer, makes my five color deck run smooth as silk. Well, that and Joiner Adept :)

It's funny how Terramorphic Expanse and Evolving Wilds are rated waaaaaay better than the original fetch lands, like Grasslands, Rocky Tar Pit, Mountain Valley etc. These are literally the same speed as the old ones. The others are actually possibly better (but probably about even) because they fetch up specifically Mountain or Forest, Island or Swamp, and you can pull out the Ravnica lands.

The argument against them is that they come into play tapped, and Terramorphic Expanse doesn't. And that the Mirage fetch lands come into play tapped. The beauty of it is that even though the Mirage lands come into play tapped, when they fetch out the land it comes into play untapped. So either way you look at it, Terramorphic brings the land into play tapped, and the old ones come into play tapped first, but in a two color deck the Mirage lands are probably a little better. The only argument I have against the Mirage lands is that you can hit Landfall twice in one turn with Terramorphic Expanse, you can't with the original fetch lands.

my steppe lynx love it some expanse

Can we have some new art PLEASE!!

@ Evilcleavage

"The others are actually possibly better (but probably about even) because they fetch up specifically Mountain or Forest, Island or Swamp"

On what plane of existance is limiting your choice to one of two basic lands better than being able to choose from all five?

@ Concerned Bystander

Take a look at the card Badlands. The oracle text lists it as a Swamp Mountain. So with a card that says "search for a Mountain or Swamp and put it into play (tapped or untapped)" you can actually play Badlands since it doesn't specify BASIC land, just a Mountain or Swamp.

Remember kids, although Evolving Wilds is functionally identical to this, if you run both (by that i mean 2 of each if you intend to run 4) your deck is less susceptible to cards like Haunting Echoes! (since Haunting Echoes exiles all cards from your graveyard except basic lands)

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LAND GRABBING! DECK THINING! CARD ADVANTAGE! DOUBLE LAND FALL! WEEEEEE!

This card is extremely overrated imo even for type 2.

People are raving about how this can fetch all 5 basic lands but its only useful in a deck running no more than two colors. This card is all too disappointing in my sliver deck. If I run 8 of these and basic lands, I can get access to all 5 colors and cast all my slivers by 5th turn. While the better alternative is actually triple color tapped lands from alara or vivid lands from Lorwyn, also comes into play tapped but gives me all 5 colors in turn 2.

If this is not good in a multi-color deck and not nearly as good as THE fetchlands then what is this thing good for?

They've had the same art ever since it was first put in. And it's amazing-art-wise and playability-wise! Sure, it's no $20 fetchland for your $300 standard deck, but for budget players, it's awesome!

@Battlefish:

It's good for those of us who can't afford to drop $40 on fetchlands.

Wow, I just realized this didn't get an M12 reprint. Goodbye cheap manafixing for Standard! Unless Innistrad cooks up something good.

a very excellent comment by sleetfox..