I like these lands. It seems like they should be in pretty much every EDH deck that shares the color.
Maybe not in 4-5 colour manabases as those are often light on basics (and their bonus isn't good enough IMHO to be worth coming into play tapped), but I'd definitely run these in all mono, two and three color decks if they aren't too expensive.
Don't forget that fetchable dual lands will also meet the criteria.
Yeah, nothing in the text specifies that the Island must be a "Basic Island." It's worded that way because whenever shocklands are legal, Wizards likes to throw them some kind of cool interaction that's all upsides, except fetchlands. They tried that only once in Standard and everyone agreed never again.
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Yeah, nothing in the text specifies that the Island must be a "Basic Island." It's worded that way because whenever shocklands are legal, Wizards likes to throw them some kind of cool interaction that's all upsides, except fetchlands. They tried that only once in Standard and everyone agreed never again.
candidus inperti; si nil, his utere mecum.
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