MTG Top 10: Red Lands | Magic: the Gathering | Episode 263 

Shock would get alot of printings...

Dryad Arbor. It actually is a colored land.

Definitely an underrated card, and often "slept" on. (Check out the art and artist for both Spinerock Knoll and Knollspime Dragon if you haven't seen it before, they are designed for one another and it's super awesome! The entire Hideaway land cycle has a paralleling creature that accompanies the lands!)

In the words of the man with the best beard in mtg: Everyone loves a real good mountain

At least all of them arent island

Not even one mountain kind of funny... Though that might just mean Madblind mountain is not on there, I don’t know if that’s the only nonbasic nonmulticolored mountain...

Mountains are colorless not red

@@MmKayUltra1 so are literally all lands mate

Kinda hard, considering theres no foils on urza's saga.

pretty sure labor day is in September...

Can someone explain why people keep requesting that video idea, and why Nizzahon does not make the suggestion into an actual video???

@@Mr_Myst13 it has been the Lobster Emperor's dearest wish since as far as I can remember. Nizzahon did say before that doing the research for this specific topic would take a lot of time :)

@@zoesidener7724 May 1st is labor day in most of the world.

@@taranmellacheruvu2504 I'm sure Drew _is_ a lobster. That's why he wants to destroy the bourgeoisie; they've eaten his family!

I find it more weird that the Castle cycle of Eldraine isn't Legendary...

Also, library of Alexandria isn't legendary despite it being a reall-ass place that actually exists. Magic is weird sometimes.

@@jackpabich763 they should be legendary, but aren't for gameplay reasons. Valakut on the other hand doesn't have that excuse. I mean you would think that recurring 3 damage landfall (mountainfall) trigger would be overpowered if you have multiple copies when we have tons of cards that can just ramp to oblivion and beyond.

@@kyoken8691 It's the exact opposite, actually. Back when Valakut was printed, the legendary rule stated that only 1 legendary permanent of that name could be on the battlefield. Now it's each player can only have one. Meaning the castle cycle should 100% be legendary.

@@jackpabich763 regardless of whether or not castles should be legendary, Valakut was a specific location in the game and simultaneously has an ability unique unto itself that has proved to be mechanically incredibly powerful. It was designed for a rotating format that wanted deck lists to be able to focus on lands in a land based set without them removing one another, but it was never tested for other possible formats because extended was still a growing format and it was retired about 4 years after the release of Zendikar in favor of a new growing format, modern. During the shift between formats and the primary focus on balancing standard (which had its own issues at the time) Valakut sort of slipped through the cracks for a long time. It makes much more sense now mechanically to have erratad the card to be legendary because of the Legendary Rule change, but hindsight is 20/20 and WotC doesn't like rewriting card abilities and interactions unless it is absolutely necessary (such as Companion). Truth be told, there are a TON of busted cards that slip through standard's "balancing" mechanically, and another land that fits this mold is Field of the Dead. There was no logical reason beneficial to gameplay mechanics to allow multiple copies of that card to see play simultaneously under one person's control, except for flavor purposes because FotD wasn't a named location. In totality, I agree that the castles ought to have been legendary in some respect, but they are in no way as harmful to any meta as Valakut or FotD have been in the past year(s). When creating a game, mechanical design should ALWAYS come first. When the mechanics suffer, the game suffers.

Top 6, let’s make it not a multiple of 5 and also not a top 3

Well there are 11 basic lands, 12 if they ever print snow wastes... so top 6 would probably be straight forward believe it or not.

The guru basic lands must be the best because they cost around $500... I mean if they weren’t what would that imply, magic players have more money than sense? lol

Can someone please explain why someone should use wastes? If it only taps for colorless why not just use colored basics that can do that as well?

Odd Pal Some eldrazi have to use colorless mana

Spoiler alert but that was probably a bit of a gimme

I did a search on scryfall and it seems the only other one is the recently printed Dwarven Mine from Throne of Eldraine.

One of the blue dual lands would win I'd guess Tundra, maybe Underground Sea. Those have been seeing play since Magic came out. I think the top 4 would be the 4 blue dual lands and next most popular land would be maybe Taiga (because of kird ape and all the zoo decks which have been around forever). Hard for more recent dual lands (which only see play in limited formats) to compete with that much history a lot of the dual lands only see play in one standard format and then they rotate. I think lands that tap for more than 2 colours would be way more interesting my guess is Reflecting Pool would be most common maybe Undiscovered Paradise (which used to see a lot of play in Dredge) Cavern of Souls might eke in. Edit forgot City of Brass - that would be no 1.

I updated Planeswalkers last year, too soon to revisit

Aidan Weiss-Rice Just kinda sounds meh. Most decks are just better of with a ton of fetchlands, Knights, Elvish Reclaimers, and some degenerate way to combo kill the enemy. [Orcish does seem decent...]

Methods include, but are not limited to: Dryad + Valakut Valakut + Dryad + Scapeshift Thespian Stage + Dark Depths Having a board state + Westvale Abbey

@@coraline7866 I meant a top ten list

It's worded in a weird way because it's from an old set, but if you look at the most recent printings they changed it to the usual "it's still a land".

It's a 2/1 red Warrior

@anneaunyme They have a huge red mana symbol in their textbox, and the comprehensive rules say: (T): Add (R)

@@Brinta3 The "huge mana symbol" has no in-game significance, as a guild's watermark. That text in the comprehensive rules is in italics, which means it is only a rules reminder and thus doesn't count: this is not enough to provide a color identity.

wish granted

@@alaraplatt8104 what did I miss??

Rare spell lands? Valakut cycle isn't legendary because of the way the legendary rule worked back in the day. Why are you not surprised that the Castle cycle of Eldraine isn't legendary?

lol

Red decks win.

Yup