MTG Salvation

Here's a compilation of all the new full-art basic lands from BFZ in one thread:

Pretty ******* sick.

Ya, I really like the art on the vast majority of the new lands. Anyways, since us cube folk like to use cool basic lands, I thought it would be cool to have them all in one thread to review them.

Nice one! I normally run one basic land from each set, but I run one of each of the original Zendikar basics and I'll do the same here.

My faves are:

Plains #2
Island #1
Swamp #4
Mountain #2 or #3
Forest #2

But really they are all pretty amazing.

Plains #250 is sweet! And Mountain #266 looks like a Taiga

If I had to choose one from each:

Plains 4
Island 4
Swamp 1
Mountain 4
Forest 2

I really enjoy Tianhua X's work here - I hope we see more of him/her?

Favorite of each of the new ones. Funnily, more than a few of them tell me "pair me with another land":

Plains: Sam Burley
Island: Tianhua X ( specifically want this for some moody Dimir deck )
Swamp: Noah Bradley ( another one specifically for pairing: this + Plains in an Orzhov deck )
Mountain: Sam Burley ( pairs so well with the Adam Paquette Forest for Gruul colors )
Forest: Tianhua X

I like these substantially more than the original Zendikar basics.

As someone who doesn't care much about "pimpness" am finally going to upgrade my basics to nothing but these lands.

Pretty happy about it, since most other pimped basics are very expensive.

As an environmental scientist, I can't help but wonder what kind of screwball geology is happening on some of these cards. That said, I especially love Plains #251 and Mountain #268.

I never realized that I was such a Noah Bradely fanboy.

Plains # 250 (1st)
Island# 253 (1st)
Mountain # 265 (Best land in the whole set)

These will definitely make it into my cube once the foil price cools down.

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I like these substantially more than the original Zendikar basics.

I concur, especially with the forests. The BFZ forests are less green than the Zendikar ones but that's a good thing. There's so much to take in now with how the light blue sky complements the foilage adding much more depth compared to the Zendikar forests. Absolutely stunning. I'll be glad to finally have my entire land base full arts from both sets.

There's not a single land here that I don't love. They are all amazing.

These are all great and I will probably end up using one per art to go with the rest of the lands I am running. I really want to crack a few foils.

I like mountain 265. Molten dodgeballs is best mountain.

I'm torn; I don't know if I want all of them to be 1 art, or have a combination of each. Thoughts?

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I'm torn; I don't know if I want all of them to be 1 art, or have a combination of each. Thoughts?

Combine these and some old zendikar basics.

I'm gonna make a full foil set of all full art lands ever printed. A total of 10 of each land, makes it possible to use full arts in almost any deck.

I love them all and bought 2 fat pack 80 card sets to completely change my basic lands in my cube. Brand new will look very nice!

They're all really nice but I decided to go with the Noah Bradleys. I think they're just gorgeous, especially the forest and swamp. Grabbed three sets of foils and will probably grab a fourth. I also did grab a set of the Sam Burleys and my group really like the Tianhuas so I might bite the bullet on those as well.