Pointed Discussion

YES!!! I missed you in the core set, but you're back!!!! Although I think they shoulda kept Terramorphic Expanse in the core set to give new players some mana fixing

I loved the old art and like this one even more!

Woo! The savior of multi-colored pauper decks! And with new artwork and flavor text! I'm...just not sure how the flavor works with the setting. But I suddenly don't care! Yay!

So instead of just 4 Terramorphic Expanse I can now put 8?

Sounds a bit of a overkill to me unless you are running some land oriented deck

so... that's thaben cathedral? It seems sad to me that Thalia, for all of her central-character themed goodness, has crappy quotes on every single card she bothers to talk bout. the picture is beautiful, but doenst represent the supa-fast land changing qualities that previous versions of evolving wilds and terramorphic expanse have.

People want mana fixing. Here it is. Not perfect, but it will do.

This makes Ponder so much better in standard. It was already good, but now it's better.

Commander Review: it's a solid addition to deck with three or more colors. It's a tad slow but gives you what you need without further mana investment, and slightly filters your library. Better with rings of brighthearth, crucible of worlds and so on. :)
3/5

Welcome back, my good friend :)

Yay, I was beginning to get sick of Traveller's Amulet. I have a feeling even tier one standard decks will come to utilize this, at least until better fetch effects make a return.

I wish I hadn't just bought 4 copies for one of my decks. If I had known this gorgeous art was going to see print I would have waited.

All I can say is THANK YOU WIZARDS!! Awesome reprint. 4, please

Gee Bill! How come your DCI lets you run eight Terramorphic Expanses?

A break for the standard budget player.

*cough* Crucible of Worlds *cough*

Seems like the only reason this is currently rated significantly lower than the Rise of the Eldrazi print is due to the questionable flavor of this card in Innistrad block. There was some forcing and lack of creative insertion on the parts of the designers with this one. I think improved flavor text would have done a lot for this print's rating.

The reflavoring is nice. I might be tripping a little (@humor_love and Totema), but this is my interpretation of it: Innistrad is changing. With Avacyn gone, humans are being exterminated in the hinterlands and their villages and parishes are being turned into playgrounds for the plane's horrors. Entire villages are being reclaimed by forests, the tall spires of their churches sprouting from between the trees being the only visible indicator of what they once were. That when they aren't claimed by a ghoulcaller and turned into a horrible swamp, with the remnants of its buildings and its villagers alike half-visible in the deep mucky maw of the mire. That is what Thalia is talking about in her quote - they have to protect Thraben, the basis of their church, even if they lose their provinces in other lands.
Mechanically, however, it doesn't feel so good in Dark Ascension. There aren't any cards that care about land cards in graveyards in its block, except for the extremely unlikely Archangel's Light. In Rise of the Eldrazi, it was in the same block (though not in the same set) as various landfall cards such as Rampaging Baloths, which coud benefit a lot from 8 Terramorphic Expanses in your deck.
That little lack of mechanical sinergy doesn't bother me at all, though. I'm sure R&D put a lot of tought on reprinting this and I approve it greatly. So do limited players, I think.

@DavenOctavio: I think it would be more appropriate to compare it to Shimmering Grotto than to Traveler's Amulet.

@Majinara: Incredibly, your "Commander Review" in this card is fairly right, unlike the usual smoldering pile of crap you post on DKA cards, and doesn't deserve to be rated 0.5. Keep that way.

@Everyone: Just noticed both Innistrad an Dark Ascension have reprints of common mana-fixing lands. If Avacyn Restored keeps this trend, my money is on a Rupture Spire reprint. Probably where the Helvault once stood.

Don't much care for the re-packaging. Doesn't make much sense for Innistrad. It isn't a chaotic mass of a world like Zendikar was, it's wilds don't "Evolve."

Poor mans mana fixer. It works fine, but runs the risk of slowing your tempo.