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New Benalia

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New Benalia

Comments (4)

A3Kitsune
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (3 votes)
Turns out this is secretly a preview of Theros-block's duel-land cycle. And it's a full cycle, too - both allied and enemy color pairings.
Mode
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0) (2 votes)
As A3Kitsune implied, this is going to be strictly worse than the scrylands from Theros, like Temple of Triumph.

They're all going to be rare. They're decent. But being CIPT-lands, i feel like they should have been uncommons only.

Shards of Alara's tricolor-taplands for instance were also uncommon. Zendikar's lifegain taplands were also uncommon. Admittedly, Zendikar had another rare cycle and was a land-centered Cycle, also had the rare CIPT-manlands in Worldwake, and scy is usually worth more than one life, and there are going to be a couple of cards in Theros that interact with it (similar to how Onslaught's Astral Slide triggers with Cycling). BUT STILL.
Taudisban
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I think that the Theros lands were rare because they have little to no play in limited. Unless you're already in those colors, they basically waste a rare slot.