Pointed Discussion

Should have had the Dark Ascension art.

@A3Kitsune

I second this. Massive flavour fail.

Very strange that this doesn't use the Dark Ascension art, given that these duel decks take place on Innistrad...unless Sorin and Tibalt had their little spat on Zendikar, but this isn't "Duel Decks: Sorin vs. Tibalt featuring Emrakul".

How is this rated higher than, and not equal to Terramorphic Expanse? It's functionally identical.

@MattLynn: For reasons that have nothing to do with mechanics, such as artwork or metagame (in this case between the two decks).

This card is really over-rated. Terramorphic expanse's 3.75 stars is a lot closer to right. The best thing that you can say about this card is, at least you cut 2 lands at the same time from your deck (making it slightly less likely to draw another land). Dual lands also come into play tapped (and sometimes don't!), and should achieve the same "choice of mana" function for 2-3 colour decks. I guess 5 colour decks might find dual lands insufficient, but then chromatic lantern is almost certainly more useful than this card.

For perspective, the original dual lands are only ~.6 stars higher than this rating, on average.

This card is great, mana fixing at common rarity that is useful in multiple formats such as Singleton, Pauper, EDH, Cube, Draft, etc. I recommend checking the promo version of this card out if you haven't because the art is amazing.

strictly worse art than terramorphic expanse

I'm sad that it's rotating now, I wanted it to beef up Drown in Filth. Standard doesn't have any sac lands. :( Well, I guess Encroaching Wastes and Grove of the Guardian sacrifice themselves, but only late game.