MTG Salvation

So with Kaladesh out next set (i think stopped caring about standard) the enemies duals will be out so what cycle of duals do you expect? Old cycle seeing completion or new design?

I'd like to see the enemy coloured BFZ style lands, or the enemy buddy lands.

FETCHES!!!!
lol no, probably something that has seen a million printing, HOPEFULLY something new and exciting, new cycle of Manlands a la Fairie Conclave or something

Nothing is rotating until September/October in the set after the Core set.

My guesses on what gets printed as lands are the following...

1) The enemy tango land cycle since that benefits mid-range strategies and have basic land types. (Not the best but not the worst either...)
2) The enemy cycle of the Shadows over Innistrad buddy lands. (Please don't do this... omg please don't do this...)
3) The enemy pain lands cycle because they are basically dollar lands and help fit that theme of keeping the game affordable. (Go check my basement backlog?)

I doubt we are getting enemy check lands because WoTC hasn't done full cycle reprints in the last two years and they certainly aren't starting now. We just got enemy fetchlands in the last masters set so those probably aren't coming. Filter lands would just be completely out of left field. Ravnica shocks are more likely going to show up in Masters 25, but they also may save slots for other historic lands not on the reserved list like wasteland, Rishadan Port, and some others that can always use a printing.

Also nothing rotates until september...

I've been harping about the filter lands but, wizards seems to print cycles that have been printed into sand. (Pain Cylce, and Allied Buddy lands)

Well the cycles which are missing the enemy colors are the mirage fetch lands, the odyssey filter lands, the battle lands, the bicycle lands and the snow duals. I think the snow duals and the battle lands are the more likely out of these. I hope they'll finish one of these existing cycles.

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Well the cycles which are missing the enemy colors are the mirage fetch lands, the odyssey filter lands, the battle lands, the bicycle lands and the snow duals. I think the snow duals and the battle lands are the more likely out of these. I hope they'll finish one of these existing cycles.

Don't forget amonkhet introduction to cycle duel lands.

EDIT: oh wait that's what bicycle cycle is.

But yea I expect one of these in dominaria return.

I feel like the bicycle lands are more of an uncommon land cycle than a rare one. Then again, I felt the same way about scry lands when those were printed. At the end of the day it's probably something new or something cheap. They don't like to put things they can stuff into masters sets in these standard sets recently.

Due to what's in standard it has to be an enemy cycle, and they won't start a brand new cycle with enemy lands, so they'll either reprint an old cycle or complete a cycle that's already been started by allied lands.

Possibilities, from most likely to least likely (in my opinion):

• Enemy Checklands - They did the allied ones in Ixalan, which seems weird since the enemy ones are less-reprinted and more expensive (theoretically, they could have printed allied or enemy lands in Ixalan, since the dual lands were already balanced in standard, as long as they did the other one in Dominaria). This decision would make more sense if they were planning to do the rest of the cycle shortly after in Dominaria.
• Enemy Painlands - They've already printed these into oblivion but that didn't stop them with the allied checklands. These ones have been in core sets more recently than than the allied checklands but they are specifically tied to Dominaria, so they can't be reprinted in sets on other planes and they add nostalgic value. I'm really hope that they don't go with these ones again, though.
• Enemy Cycling Lands - These would require the return of cycling despite Dominaria being so soon after Amonkhet, but cycling is strongly tied to Dominaria and it would create inter-block synergy, so I could see it happening. However, I don't see this set going full Time Spiral with tons of returning mechanics and there are numerous other old mechanics to revisit that we haven't seen recently, such as morph and flashback, so it would be somewhat surprising.
• Enemy Battlelands/Tangolands - Definitely something that they will want to print eventually, but it doesn't have to be in Dominaria. These would't make as much sense in a nostalgia set as either a reprinted cycle or a cycle featuring a mechanic originally from Dominaria (cycling lands), so they would probably be better off waiting on these ones. We also should be seeing Ravnica 3 shortly after Dominaria, so that should give people there fix of duals with basic land types anyway.
• Enemy filterlands - Filterland reprints are LONG overdue and doing part of the cycle in Dominaria would be a nice nod to Graven Cairns originally being in Time Spiral, even if it wouldn't be included in the set because they need enemy duals rather than allied, and there's not enough space for 10 rare duals in one set. The problem with this is that players would get irritated unless they reprinted the allied counterparts shortly after, and it might be tough to find space for that with Ravnica (and the arbitrary shockland reprints) on the horizon. Maybe they can print the enemy ones in Dominaria, the allied ones in core set, and then have no rare duals in the following set and do two Ravnica sets with shocklands in winter and spring? It still seems like a bit much. I think it's a long shot that any filters get reprinted on Dominaria but I would love it if they did.

Enemy Tangolands, Domain will be a mechanic in Dominaria.