The 43 Lands archetype has been around since 2006, where it Top 8ed German Legacy Championships. It catapulted its way to the spotlight in late 2009,
with several high-profile finishes in StarCityGames.com Open events, and was considered a front-runner for GP Columbus in August 2010. At GP Columbus,
it attained a Top 32 finish in the hands of Eli Kassis. It was one of the best-performing archetypes at GP Madrid in early 2010, putting 6 of 25 pilots
into Day 2.
With Survival out of the metagame and combo only played by a few stalwarts like Ari Lax or Bryant Cook, Lands is ideally positioned to take over the
metagame. Lands posts very strong percentages against the major tribal decks in the format, while at the same time being well positioned against
Counterbalance decks of all flavors. The deck has the tools to beat almost any opponent, especially in matchups that give the Lands player time to
develop.
Lands attacks the metagame from an angle few other decks do. Pairing strong mana disruption with powerful artifacts and no maindeck creatures, inbred
metagamed decks have trouble interacting with it. Even traditionally strong decks like 4C Counterbalance open themselves up to having their mana base
decimated by recurring Wastelands, knocking a mana-hungry deck down to only one or two mana available in their main phase.
Lands (34)
Spells (26)
This version of Lands holds few similarities to the builds that rocked GP Columbus. One of the main issues with the builds from 2010 was starting hands
containing both Intuition and Manabond. Going Manabond-pass against a blue opponent telegraphs having Intuition and puts you in a tricky position. Your
options were to wait and cast Intuition, hoping to dodge a Daze or Spell Pierce, or simply to discard the Intuition and get the lands in your hand into
play. Neither of these options are particularly good for the lands player, as it gives the blue player three or more unmolested turns to develop their
board position.
Instead of clunky tutors and flimsy manlands, the deck has been trimmed down, lowering the mana curve to allow interaction from turn 1. The powerful
tutors of previous iterations have been removed in favor of more powerful artifacts that can dominate the board as soon as they land. Casting
Smokestack on turn 2 when your opponent has only had one land drop can push an opponent out of the game quickly. The same Smokestack can be used to
break board stalls and break through a Counterbalance lock in the later portions of the game.
General Strategy
Lands takes an incredibly long amount of time to win games. By bringing it to a tournament, one is automatically acknowledging they’ll be going to time
or close to it every round. One cannot simply pick up Lands and bring it to a tournament. While piloting it, one must constantly know how much time is
left in the round and how to leverage this information. I am by no means encouraging anyone to play slowly. However, there are calculated risks that
can be taken or not taken depending on the time left in the round. Using your land drops to Wasteland fetches and lock your opponent out of the game
can be a good strategy in game 1, but in game 3, it might be easier to run a manland into a potential Swords to Plowshares while holding up Wasteland
to keep it from getting exiled.
By far, the most important thing to keep in mind with Lands is “how do I stabilize.” The deck doesn’t need to win, or even think about winning, until
the very end. With this in mind, many cards are included simply to stabilize at a positive life total.
Card by Card Breakdown
Life from the Loam is the engine of this deck. Although the sideboard offers resiliency when the engine is removed, in game 1, most games end with you
running over a helpless opponent with the Loam engine. There is no reason to run less than four maindeck, unless your tutor package includes Burning
Wish.
One of the biggest misconceptions about this deck is the need to Loam constantly. If you have enough lands in hand to make your land drops for the
turn, there’s nothing wrong with drawing a card. There’s a decent chance of topdecking a business spell that can help stabilize the game.
If Life from the Loam is the engine of the deck, Exploration is where the engine turns into advantage. Drawing three cards a turn is good, but not if
you can only use one of them a turn. Exploration creates on-board advantage, allowing the deck to pummel opponents. Exploration makes every card in the
deck better when it’s on-board.
2 Manabond
Although Manabond has been a mainstay in traditional Lands decks for some time in the past, the card has ups and downs. When it’s good, the card is
insane. However, Manabond forces early commitment to a strategy and doesn’t synergize well with other cards in the deck.
Post-board, Manabond is one of the worst cards in the deck and is almost always boarded out. This is because it forces the Lands player to commit to a
strategy and go all-in on that strategy very early on. If the Lands player dumps their entire hand on turn 1, they’re exposed to a Tormod’s Crypt for a
complete blowout.
Enlightened Tutor is one of the strongest tutors remaining unbanned in Legacy. Although it doesn’t find Ad Nauseam like Mystical Tutor did, it ends
games all by itself. In game 1, many decks simply cannot beat a hellbent Ensnaring Bridge. Enlightened Tutor expands the range of keepable hands and is
difficult to counter with soft permission like Spell Pierce or Daze. Enlightened Tutor also functionally gives the deck more Explorations, one of the
best cards in the deck.
Against Force of Will, the blue player is in quite the predicament. Letting you tutor for a card allows them to Force the target without card
disadvantage when it is cast, but this will put the card into the graveyard where it can be recurred later in the game with Academy Ruins. Countering
the tutor two-for-ones the blue player.
There are only three Enlightened Tutors because hands containing two of them are incredibly awkward, as multiple draw steps need to be utilized to find
the targets.
1 Entomb
Although not as powerful as Enlightened Tutor, it synergizes well with the rest of the deck. Entomb functions as a weaker, fourth Enlightened Tutor and
fifth Life from the Loam. It can also find some of the versatile lands this deck runs off of, such as The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale or Glacial Chasm.
Ensnaring Bridge is one of the most powerful cards in the format, in a deck that can afford to play the rest of the game with almost no cards in hand.
Few decks in Legacy have a way to win through Ensnaring Bridge, and those that do rely on hitting a few key outs. A resolved Ensnaring Bridge extends
the game for more turns, allowing the more powerful Loam Engine to take over.
Although Ensnaring Bridge is powerful, Meekstone provides necessary redundancy to hold off attacking Tarmogoyfs and Tombstalkers. In the middle
portions of a game, Meekstone can be tutored for and resolved through most soft permission, which makes it very difficult for a blue deck to handle.
Meekstone allows the deck to live through a single Progenitus hit as well. Despite the poor synergy with other cards like Maze of Ith, Meekstone
provides key redundancy to the deck. Additionally, Meekstone gives the deck an out to Knight of the Reliquary, a card that is extremely potent against
this deck because it can tutor up additional Wastelands.
Although stabilizing a game is good, the ability to lock out an opponent is often necessary to win. Since the only non-permanents in this deck are Loam
and the Tutors, Lands can keep Smokestack at one infinitely with no other synergies. With Exploration and Loam online, Smokestack can go as high as
three, which few other decks in the format can beat. Lands has a stronger engine than every other deck in the format, even the dedicated Smokestack
decks in the meta. Smokestack is one of the primary ways of breaking a Counterbalance lock, as only a handful of four-drops see play in the format.
In Lands, Engineered Explosives has the ability to knock out almost every permanent that sees play, except for Tombstalker and creatures cheated into
play. Explosives recursion is why this deck has such a strong matchup against the blue decks in the format. Lands has such a high mana density that in
the midgame, it’s common to start casting Explosives for six with sunburst two to completely dodge Counterbalance.
Engineered Explosives also saves the deck against various irritating game 1 permanents, such as Samurai of the Pale Curtain and Aether Vial.
Crucible is one of the major departures of this list from previous iterations. It allows Enlightened Tutor to find a card-advantage engine and
synergizes well with Exploration.
Sensei’s Divining Top is an odd choice in this deck, but it’s a very powerful card. Lands has many different answers for problem cards and permanents,
and Sensei’s Top helps find those answers. Additionally, it allows you to keep dredging while searching for Exploration by letting you preview the
cards that are going to be dredged. Opening up on turn 1 Sensei’s Top against Counterbalance is one of the scariest things this deck is capable of,
because it allows Lands to find Engineered Explosives and Academy Ruins to blow the game open.
Sensei’s Divining Top’s second ability creates a way to save Loam from graveyard hate in games 2 and 3 by letting you draw at instant speed. Although
this option is rarely used, it’s a powerful on-board trick.
Zuran Orb turns many of the aggro matchups into a complete joke. The Orb allows Lands to gain life and stabilize in the midgame when it needs to. In
conjunction with Bob, it allows pain-free drawing. With Exploration, Zuran Orb lets you completely outpace a burn deck trying to race you.
One of the big plays to watch out for when playing against Zoo is an end of turn Krosan Grip on Zuran Orb, followed by a Price of Progress in their
upkeep. If they have enough free mana, it’s often a good idea to sacrifice enough lands to comfortably survive a Price of Progress without passing
priority between each sacrifice.
Mox Diamond is typically run as a three-of or four-of, but it’s too good to not run four. Although it can provide for some awkward opening hands,
opening on double-Diamond and Loam puts three mana on the field on the first turn, forcing an opponent to try and play catch-up. Mox Diamond also
smooths the mana of a very mana-hungry deck; this build of Lands is four colors, and all four provide high-impact spells and abilities.
Lands:
5 Green Fetches, 1 Bayou, 3 Tropical Island, 1 Savannah
The mana distribution in this deck is slightly different from previous builds. By cutting Mishra’s Factory, it freed up space to increase the fetchland
count by one, as well as increasing the dual count.
The three Tropical Islands is somewhat suspect, as blue mana is only used for Academy Ruins and Tolaria West. Tolaria West is absolutely critical to
the deck’s success, and having two blue mana is incredibly important.
Both black and white mana are only used as one-shot effects. Additionally, decks that pack mana disruption typically want to hold Wasteland for Maze of
Ith, so the odds of having dual lands wasted is low.
1 Forest
The one Forest provides a great deal of stability to the deck. One of the easiest ways for a Lands player to lose is by being unable to develop their
board because they don’t have green mana available. This also gives us mana through many of the narrow hate cards such as Price of Progress and Blood
Moon.
In the fetchland/dual land-filled Legacy format, Wasteland is an incredibly potent card. Wastelands should almost always be used whenever an
opportunity presents itself; however there are exceptions. In some matchups such as Counterbalance, having an additional land in play can allow
Engineered Explosives to dodge a Counterbalance. Post-board, Wastelanding an opposing Wasteland to Extirpate it or to safely play a The Tabernacle at
Pendrell Vale could be required.
Rishadan Port is one of the cornerstones of this deck. It allows all of the virtual advantage created by Exploration and Loam to be manifested against
an opponent. Rishadan Port’s ability can also be used across turns to cut your opponent off of Counterspell or Extirpate mana on your turn for a single
critical turn.
Maze of Ith is the single card that makes Lands, as an archetype, playable. Maze keeps Lands in the game against aggro and prolongs games against
control to allow for engines like Academy Ruins to come online. Maze is the most frequently tutored card in the deck because it synergizes well with
the rest of the deck. Many decks in Legacy get by with fewer than ten creatures. Two or three Mazes will stop them cold in their tracks. In conjunction
with Tabernacle and Waste-lock, even an opponent running a lot of basics may only have a couple in play once our Loam Engine starts.
1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale
Despite personally owning two (and being able to obtain more if necessary), there is only one Tabernacle in my list. There’s simply not enough tribal
in the meta to warrant additional Tabernacles, and the card isn’t insane in the non-tribal matchups. When I ran two, the second would almost always
come out against non-tribal decks.
Academy Ruins is an incredibly powerful land and the first thing I tutor for in control matchups. Ruins, in conjunction with any of the artifacts, can
break control matchups wide open, recurring either Engineered Explosives or Smokestack.
Academy Ruins is also the deck’s back-up win condition. Few decks have the ability to beat recurring Engineered Explosives, and failing that, recurring
even a Mox Diamond and playing it every turn is enough to not deck against an opponent who’s waiting to see a win condition.
Tolaria West is one of the secondary engines of the deck and transforms explosive starts into ensnaring midgames. Tolaria West’s transmute ability
enables it to find almost any card in the deck, including Mox Diamond and Zuran Orb. It has two very different functions against Counterbalance decks
and non-Counterbalance decks. Against Counterbalance, it can find Academy Ruins and later, Engineered Explosives to lock an opponent out of a game.
Against the non-Counterbalance decks, it finds prison elements such as Maze of Ith or Tabernacle. It also creates virtual copies of every other land in
the deck, making it easier to find a win condition towards the end of the game.
Tranquil Thickets provide a convenient way of increasing the deck’s green mana count, while contributing to the card advantage of the Loam engine.
Tranquil Thicket provides another function, especially in games 2 and 3. It allows one to play around graveyard-based hate by dredging Loam back to
one’s hand in response to the activation of Tormod’s Crypt. Even in game 1, Thicket lets one play around Vendilion Clique by never passing priority
with Life from the Loam in hand. The way to do this is to draw normally for the turn with Life from the Loam in the graveyard. Then, cycle Tranquil
Thicket in one’s first main phase. Replace the draw with a dredge and then immediately cast Life from the Loam, targeting Tranquil Thicket and whatever
other lands one chooses to return.
Ghost Quarter is a very versatile card in Lands. It has the ability to destroy the mana base of an opponent, by recurring Ghost Quarter until the
opponent fails to find additional lands. Second, Ghost Quarter can be used on your own land as an impromptu fetchland to find the basic Forest,
especially in response to a Blood Moon or Price of Progress.
Most Legacy decks don’t run many basics, and even the mono-colored decks run many utility lands such as Rishadan Port in Goblins or Mutavault in
Merfolk. Typical three-color decks will have only three or four basics total. While playing Lands, it’s important to keep track of how many lands, both
basic and dual, your opponent has in his or her deck. Many games are won simply by grinding out an opponent until they no longer have the ability to
cast spells.
Glacial Chasm has three separate abilities: you cannot attack; when it comes into play, sacrifice a land; and cumulative upkeep pay two life. The first
ability is barely relevant and only something that should be kept in mind to avoid accumulating penalties. The second ability is marginally relevant,
as it necessitates an Exploration or Manabond in play to maintain the lock. The lock can also be maintained with just a Zuran Orb, as Chasm can stay in
play for two turns, by paying two life and sacrificing the Chasm with the trigger on the stack to restore the two life lost. The third ability,
cumulative upkeep, is one of the hardest decisions in the deck. It’s a hefty sacrifice but one with massive tradeoffs. Every turn you stay alive under
Chasm allows for more land drops and more of a board presence to be constructed. In a vacuum, I’ll pay two life to keep Glacial Chasm around because
that allows for more lands to be put onto the battlefield, creating advantage.
An over-reliance on Chasm should be avoided, as many of the decks that Chasm is best against have the means of destroying it, typically through
Wasteland in Goblins or Merfolk. Also, against Zoo, Chasm can be broken with a timely Price of Progress.
1 Karakas
Karakas occupies one of several flex slots in the deck. Its role is mainly to deal with three creatures: Gaddock Teeg, Iona, Shield of Emeria, and
Emrakul, the Aeons Torn. It also has fringe benefits by bouncing Mangara of Corondor. Although Karakas isn’t as relevant as it was when Survival and
Reanimator were still heavily played in the format, the creatures all have the ability to end games quickly if they’re not dealt with.
A quick note about Karakas. It’s frequently boarded out, as it’s not particularly good in most matchups. However, if you suspect an opponent has
Gaddock Teeg (or can have it), keep Karakas in the deck, as without Smokestack or Engineered Explosives, many matchups become far more difficult.
Creeping Tar Pit is the last maindeck card to discuss, as it is by far one of the least necessary cards in the deck… That is not to say the card is
without merit. Rather, that this deck needs to play a win condition, and Tar Pit is one of the most reasonable and cost-efficient win conditions
available. Creeping Tar Pit’s three power has the ability to end games in a reasonable number of turns. The real beauty of the card, however, is being
unblockable. This allows Creeping Tar Pit to slip past creatures tied up by Maze of Ith and attack a player or alternatively a planeswalker. Creeping
Tar Pit is one of the primary counters this deck plays to a resolved Jace, the only other being Engineered Explosives.
Sideboard
As a general note about sideboarding, Lands is highly flexible. There are no absolutely necessary cards in the sideboard, and running answers to
individual decks is perfectly acceptable. In many ways, Lands is a 65-card deck with a ten-card sideboard. The deck has a great deal of flexibility in
moving cards between the maindeck and sideboard. Currently, bullets like Karakas, Zuran Orb, the second Engineered Explosives, or Meekstone exist as
extensions of the sideboard.
Storm combo is widely considered one of the worst matchups for this deck, as Lands lacks both a clock and Force of Will. Hence, my strategy is to
devote board slots to very strong hate cards that are still playable in other matchups.
This card is the crux of the deck, post-board. An unanswered Dark Confidant is so incredibly powerful, and many games are won off the back of it,
without ever resolving another spell. Dark Confidant can be played in this deck even when you’re at a low life total; the maindeck has an average
converted mana cost of around .6 and slightly higher post-board. It’s important to remember what the most life you can lose at any flip is, to
preemptively sacrifice lands to Zuran Orb.
Dark Confidant comes in against almost any matchup because it represents a strong conundrum to most opposing players. The easy sideboarding guide for
other decks is -removal, +grave hate. Dark Confidants create an opportunity for opposing players to make mistakes, siding out the wrong cards and
letting us run over them. Even when players expect Dark Confidant, they need to sideboard out business spells to deal with Bob, while Lands takes out a
handful of cards that are overall weaker.
In the combo matchups, Dark Confidant provides a clock, albeit not a fast one while also drawing us into hate.
Krosan Grip is not in the sideboard for Counterbalance. Even when boarded in against decks containing Counterbalance, it should only rarely be
cast on Counterbalance. Instead, Krosan Grip is in the deck to eliminate the most effective hate card opponents can bring to the table: Pithing Needle.
Every other card can be dealt with by using Engineered Explosives or Oblivion Stone recursion.
Extirpate is not in the sideboard for graveyard strategies. While it’s a strong card against Dredge or other Loam decks, they’re not the reason
for Extirpate. Instead, Extirpate exists as a foil to opposing Wastelands. Playing Lands is far easier against opponents when they no longer have
Wastelands in their deck.
Extirpate has the potential to win games on turn 1 as well. Against some decks, such as Canadian Threshold or BUG Tempo decks, they only run four of a
dual to support a particular color. Turn 1 Wasteland, followed by a Mox Diamond and Extirpate on a dual, can make an already easy match a cakewalk by
stripping the mana required to cast Tarmogoyfs out of an opponent’s deck.
Extirpate also allows Lands to find what opponents have in their hand and deck. This isn’t always relevant but good against decks like Goblins or
Merfolk that can board in Blood Moon and Back to Basics respectively. It also gives vital information for what other cards to play around, such as
Daze, Spell Pierce, or Counterspell.
Extirpate is one of the most difficult pieces of hate for a Storm player to play through, mostly because it’s unexpected. After an Ad Nauseam,
stripping away an Infernal Tutor or removing a mana source can turn an easy kill into a scoop.
Sometimes, catchall answers are required. Oblivion Stone provides an out to an incredible number of cards, especially opposing permanent-based hate,
such as Magus of the Moon, that are hard to deal with otherwise. While it’s not particularly good in any mainstream matchup, there’s an incredible
amount of diversity in Legacy, and having one tutorable catchall is very strong. This is also one of the only ways to beat a deck like Combo Elves,
Enchantress, or Dragon Stompy.
Tutorable Storm hate, which is always strong. If possible, this should be set at one against most forms of Tendrils-based Storm. It’s always a judgment
call between playing Chalice at zero or letting them take a turn and potentially kill you. I tend to gamble, as Chalice at one shuts off far more of
their relevant cards than Chalice at zero.
1 Null Rod
Null Rod is not in the deck as Storm hate, per se, but rather to address the Affinity matchup, a matchup that gets far better once you have the
two-mana hoser. It’s also backbreaking against the new MUD lists that have been popping up.
Null Rod is a dangerous card to play in Lands because it’s rather symmetrical. There are still a large number of cards in Lands that get shut down
under Rod, but it tends to not matter all that much, as it’s very strong in the matchups it’s boarded in for. Null Rod makes correct sequencing far
more important, as it will cut off a Mox Diamond that had previously been used to fix a splash color.
Ethersworn Canonist is the strongest piece of Storm hate in this deck, mostly because it beats for two. Although there are many answers to Canonist,
finding them becomes more difficult for Storm players. Canonist also maintains utility in other non-interactive matchups by slowing the game down to
allow for backbreaking engines like Smokestack to come online.
Crypt is the miser’s graveyard hate card in this deck. It’s tutorable via both E-Tutor and Tolaria West, making up for only running one. Our matchups
against graveyard decks are fairly good already, so only having one Crypt isn’t that big of a deal.
Go ahead; look up what this card does. Now look at how many creatures in Legacy have activated abilities. This card is a strong prison element against
decks running Mangara of Corondor, while also shutting off Qasali Pridemage. In the Goblins matchup, this shuts down Goblin Sharpshooter, Siege-Gang
Commander, and Skirk Prospector, which can be used together to break traditional lock pieces.
Prison is yet another concession primarily to the Goblins matchup. If the deck isn’t running green, it doesn’t have an out. If it is running green, it
only has Krosan Grip. Although it fulfills a similar role to Ensnaring Bridge, it’s far harder to kill by being an enchantment. It synergizes with both
Tabernacle and Maze of Ith, creating a very potent lock.
Cards Not in the Deck
Intuition is an incredibly powerful midgame tutor; however it’s held back by being a midgame tutor. At three mana, Intuition becomes far easier to
counter in the control matchups, either by allowing an opponent to draw into Force of Will or simply Spell Piercing the tutor. Enlightened Tutor allows
a pilot to tutor on turn 3 while playing around Spell Pierce.
Intuition doesn’t synergize well with the rest of the deck. Turn 1 Manabond with an Intuition forces one to hold back on advancing their board
position, because to use Manabond requires ditching the Intuition. Even on turn 3 or 4, Intuition can’t be cast on the same turn as using Rishadan Port
to delay an opponent. Maze of Ith also plays poorly with Intuition.
Intuition also makes it very difficult to handle some problems. For instance, answering Leyline of the Void using Chris Woltereck build of Lands requires the Intuition pile of Ray of Revelation,
Smokestack, Engineered Explosives. On top of being undone by a single counterspell or Krosan Grip, the pile is incredibly slow at dealing with Leyline.
Contrast this to running Enlightened Tutor, which can tutor for Engineered Explosives to blow it up directly.
Gamble is an incredibly powerful turn 1 tutor effect, but it requires the deck to run red. Red contributes very little to the deck that can’t be solved
with other colors. Additionally, Gamble can put the tutored card into the graveyard, and the deck has no way to recur Enchantments.
One of the biggest reasons Gamble was cut from older builds was a high-profile Top 8 match between Chris Woltereck and Alix Hatfield. Woltereck had his
Manabond stripped from his hand after Gambling for it.
Contrast this to running Enlightened Tutor, which guarantees the card chosen will be in your hand the following turn. Enlightened Tutor can’t find
Loam, but it will be able to prolong a game with Ensnaring Bridge or get Crucible of Worlds to do a bad impression of Life from the Loam.
How many lands get significantly better at instant speed? One, mainly. Glacial Chasm in response to Price of Progress is cute. Beyond that, the deck
has more efficient tutors for most roles. Bojuka Bog is also good at instant speed, but graveyard-based matchups are few and far between.
Additionally, Lands in this form struggles to maintain a high enough land count, so cutting business spells for a tutor for lands is weak.
Barbarian Ring is not as good as one would expect in Lands. It serves two functions in the deck; two damage to an opponent and two damage to a
creature.
Against an opponent, Barbarian Ring is typically a ten-turn clock, which is on the slow side. Additionally, with only Loam to recur it, a Lands player
needs thirty cards in their deck to be able to kill an opponent at twenty. Barbarian Ring sacrifices itself, which delays board development, especially
without an accelerating enchantment in play.
There are four creatures that see Legacy play that a Lands player would want to kill on sight: Dark Confidant, Gaddock Teeg, Yixlid Jailer, and
Withered Wretch. Of these, Dark Confidant sees a significant amount of play; Gaddock Teeg can occasionally come out of the board; Yixlid Jailer almost
never shows up; and Withered Wretch is not played at all currently. So realistically, Dark Confidant and Gaddock Teeg are the two creatures to focus
on. Dark Confidant provides significant advantage, but the only decks running it are currently B/G/W colored decks that can do little to stop tutoring
for and resolving Engineered Explosives. Gaddock Teeg, which stops most win conditions as well as Engineered Explosives, can be dealt with via Karakas,
which makes it largely irrelevant.
If you feel that a way to kill creatures is warranted, consider Cabal Pit, which deals with hate bears with ease and can gain two life in a pinch.
Also, it’s in a more conducive color (black) than Barbarian Ring.
Worm Harvest is a very cute card in Lands, putting a large amount of tokens into play… or so it seems. However, in reality there are rarely an
incredible number of lands in the graveyard, as the deck wants to keep lands in play. Worm Harvest costs five mana, which makes it more of a liability
against Counterbalance-based decks than the alternatives such as Mindslaver or Smokestack, which are far harder to counter.
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth and Riftstone Portal
Riftstone Portal seems good, but its effect simply isn’t necessary. Riftstone allows loaming during Blood Moon, which is convenient but by no means
powerful. Both of these cards aid in casting win conditions, but once you reach a game state that casts win conditions, it’s largely irrelevant, as the
game is already won. Urborg can be used alongside sideboarded Raven’s Crime, but Raven’s Crime isn’t very good either.
Mishra’s Factory is a mana-producing land that enters the battlefield untapped and doesn’t add colored mana. Oh, and once a game is won, Mishra’s
Factory forces an opponent to scoop. That’s about it. You can ignore delusions of blocking with Factories or turning them sideways for profit at any
point besides when an opponent has zero lands in play. If you try to use it as a blocker, it will almost always be met with Swords to Plowshares.
Against most midrange decks, Lands simply traps an opponent with Maze of Ith, rendering their creatures irrelevant. However, these “useless” creatures
can block Mishra’s Factory every day of the week.
Mishra’s Factory is okay against decks still playing Nimble Mongoose and passable at stopping turn 1 Lackey. Mishra’s Factory can also be Wastelanded
or sacrificed to Zuran Orb to remove Bridge from Below. Beyond that, Mishra’s Factory is just an untapped colorless mana source.
Sorcery-speed graveyard destruction isn’t as good as one would expect. While passable against Dredge and strong in the mirror, neither of those decks
command enough popularity to warrant a maindeck slot. Even post-board, Tormod’s Crypt is simply a more efficient and easily recurrable answer.
Volrath’s Stronghold is not nearly as profitable as one would expect. Dark Confidants will rarely end up in the graveyard. Especially in situations
where Dark Confidants are dredged, it’s largely irrelevant. The game has already been won if you’re recurring Life from the Loam, as the opponent
doesn’t have hate online.
Volrath’s Stronghold creates a deckbuilding conundrum. By maindecking it, an opponent can see that the deck will be bringing in creatures post-board
and will keep in Swords to Plowshares. If Volrath’s Stronghold is boarded, then precious sideboard space is being wasted on lands.
Cephalid Coliseum has the ability to pull a Lands player far ahead in card quality. However, it comes at the expense of a land drop and requires
threshold to get value. Losing a land drop hurts the deck a fair amount. More importantly, this build of Lands has increased tutor power to land an
enchantment, as well as Sensei’s Divining Top to find one.
Horizon Canopy is similar to Cephalid Coliseum, except it provides “real” card advantage. Horizon Canopy solves many of the issues with Manabond, by
allowing the Lands player to save Loam from graveyard hate. However, Horizon Canopy still suffers the same problem that Cephalid Coliseum does; it
takes up a land drop to get card advantage, as opposed to taking a land drop for board advantage. Horizon Canopy also costs life to activate, and this
life loss adds up over a long game.
Raging Ravine / Celestial Colonnade
Worldwake brought a cycle of five very powerful manlands. However, Creeping Tar Pit is the only manland worthy of play in this deck. Although the deck
runs the colors to support Celestial Colonnade, Colonnade simply isn’t worth the space in the deck. First, it requires a commitment of six lands,
essentially to attack anything. This is a serious liability, as oftentimes against decks that play Counterbalance and Jace, the deck will have only a
handful of lands already in play. Creeping Tar Pit, at only four mana, opens up a large degree of tactical flexibility to remove a Jace, including
recurring Engineered Explosives and swinging with Tar Pit, while casting Engineered Explosives every other turn.
Raging Ravine lacks evasion and suffers from the same problem as Mishra’s Factory, despite its being able to grow.
Vesuva has one very powerful effect going for it: It enables double-Chasm lock, a lock that no aggro deck can break. Double-Chasm involves having
Glacial Chasm with one age counter on it, with Zuran Orb and Exploration / Manabond in play. Play Vesuva, copying Glacial Chasm. On the following turn,
pay two life for Vesuva and sacrifice Glacial Chasm to Zuran Orb to gain two life. From here, repeating the two steps will lock the game up, allowing
you to advance the game state in other ways.
Vesuva is a weak card on its own however and relies on other cards in play to be strong. The real issue then is Vesuva is only good once you’re already
winning. It doesn’t help catch you up when you’re behind and need to find something, especially because it comes in tapped and has a delayed impact on
the game.
Mindslaver is a very mana-intensive win-condition but is basically guaranteed to win a game, barring some strange circumstances (such as against
Hypergenesis with four Progenitus and four Emrakul, but that matchup can be won by tapping City of Brass repeatedly).
With the departure from Intuition and four Manabond builds, the deck simply no longer generates the incredible amount of mana it once did. Smokestack
is a far more useful card throughout much of the game than Mindslaver is, as it has an impact a turn after it’s cast, as early as turn 4. Smokestack
also gives the opponent a decision every turn, which can allow them to make a mistake.
Guide to Closing Out a Game with Mindslaver
Step 1: Call a judge. (makes things easier / faster)
Step 2: Announce your intention to create a shortcut.
Step 3: Tap three lands including a blue land and Academy Ruins in one pile, six lands in a second, and four lands in a third. (Use the four lands for
any Urborg-ed Maze of Ith or Rishadan Ports, in case they have counters.)
Step 4: Say “For every one of my turns, I’ll use Academy Ruins to put Mindslaver on top, tap these six lands to cast it, and these four lands to
activate it. I’ll do nothing else on my turn.”
Step 5: Ask your opponent to reveal their hand. Say “Draw a card,” then evaluate their hand. Play only cards that can interfere with your lock such as
Force of Will, leaving everything else in their hand. Continue this until they have seven cards in hand. At that point, say “You now have seven cards
in hand; I’ll choose to draw-discard for the remainder of the match” and flip over cards into their graveyard.
This whole process should take no more than three minutes, tops.
Alternate Win Conditions
See this link
for a guide of alternate win conditions.
Other Cards for Suggestion
Arcane Lab, Rule of Law, Sphere of Resistance, Ray of Revelation, Ancient Grudge, Treetop Village, Nantuko Monastery, Pithing Needle, Phyrexian
Revoker, Mindslaver, Leyline of Sanctity, Aeolipile, Cursed Scroll, Mana Vortex.
Starting Hands and Mulliganing
Lands is a deck that does not need a large amount of mulliganing. The most important part of a starting hand is the ability to interact with an
opponent. This is more important than anything else. Additionally, Life from the Loam is the single card that you’re looking for in a starting hand. I
would keep a six-land, Life from the Loam hand regardless of what those six lands were, assuming I could cast the Loam.
One of the other underappreciated plays is to not cast Life from the Loam. While some players believe this deck wants to be Loaming constantly, that is
not the case. The deck should Loam with a purpose. As long as Lands makes a land drop every turn, it’s better to draw for the turn with the hope of
finding business spell.
Matchup Guide
These are not intended to be definitive or in-depth guides to a matchup. Rather, they exist to establish the key cards in the matchup and how I
sideboard in them. Typically, -2 Manabond +2 Dark Confidant in every matchup as a start. Manabond is terrible post-board because you go completely
all-in and hope your opponent doesn’t have Crypt.
Also, play around T2 Relic of Progenitus in every matchup, unless you know for a fact the opponent doesn’t run it (New Horizons or similar). In
practice, a starting hand involving fetchland, Mox Diamond, second land, Life from the Loam should be played out as: fetch for a dual, Mox Diamond
discarding the second land, then cast Life from the Loam for only one of the lands. This forces an opponent to either pop Relic of Progenitus to
take Loam or allows us to get the Loam Engine online.
Matchup ratings go from Very Favorable – Favorable – Even – Unfavorable – Very Unfavorable. I don’t want to assign percentage points, as a good or bad
pilot on either side will move percentages by 30 points or more.
Counterbalance (No Thopter Foundry)
Very Favorable
Thopters differs dramatically from other Counterbalance decks. Typical Counterbalance decks have a matchup that hinges on their resolving a four-mana
sorcery-speed spell and riding it for the rest of the game. If it’s Jace or Natural Order, Lands has answers, and game 1 is largely about hitting the
answers and resolving them.
Priorities in this match are to find Tolaria West, to in turn find Academy Ruins + Engineered Explosives. There are arguments for finding either card
first, although I typically go for Ruins. This allows Lands to dredge every turn to try and find Engineered Explosives and keeps the Counterbalance
player honest by leaving a two on top. Game 1, they most likely have no out to Explosives lock. When casting Engineered Explosives, one can choose any
value for X and specifically designate the colors paid into it for sunburst. Engineered Explosives for six, with sunburst two, will slip past
Counterbalance with ease. Sensei’s Divining Top is amazing if you draw it before Counterbalance, as it lets you find anything to win the game.
This is one of the matchups where you shouldn’t try to win game 1. Explosives lock will win the game for you eventually, and a smart opponent should
scoop to that. If an opponent doesn’t scoop, let them drag the game out as long as it takes for them to deck out.
Post-board, their only relevant card is Pithing Needle on Ruins. Everything else can be dealt with via Explosives.
-2 Manabond
-1 Karakas (if they don’t have Teeg) / -1 Meekstone (if they don’t have Progenitus)
-1 Zuran Orb
-1 Entomb
+2 Krosan Grip
The overall idea in this matchup is the Loam Engine isn’t as important, as Counterbalance can easily shut it down. Glacial Chasm comes out, as there is
no guarantee you can recur it.
Counterbalance (With Thopter Foundry)
Very Unfavorable
This matchup is far harder, primarily because they have a rock-solid mana base that is hard to disrupt. Additionally, they have Crucible of Worlds, and
a resolved Crucible of Worlds makes the match very difficult to win.
The keys to the matchup are to try and get Academy Ruins in hand (and not in play) as soon as possible and use Smokestack to win the game. This is a
matchup hurt a lot by not having Mindslaver in the deck, as Smokestack can be countered by Counterbalance easily with Moat and Enlightened Tutor to set
it up. Pithing Needle is a serious problem in this matchup as well.
-2 Manabond
-1 Meekstone
-2 Maze of Ith
-1 Zuran Orb
-1 Entomb
+2 Krosan Grip
+2 Extirpate
Most decks won’t board Tarmogoyfs, although they could. The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale stays in the deck to stop an early Thopter-beatdown strategy.
New Horizons
Even-ish
Previously a very difficult matchup, this match has become passable. Meekstone answers most of their creatures, although letting them hit even once can
be an issue. The deck runs both Wasteland and Stifle, so be careful exposing Mazes to getting Stifled. They typically run either Spell Pierce or Daze,
but not both. Since their threats cluster at three mana, keeping them off of that should be a primary goal.
The keys to this matchup are to establish a mana base first (namely, the basic Forest) and let the Loam engine take over. Be careful of Bojuka Bog,
even in game 1.
-2 Manabond
-1 Zuran Orb
-1 Entomb
-1 Karakas
+2 Extirpate
Extirpate primarily targets Wasteland in this matchup, but don’t be afraid to use it on a dual land if you think it will matter.
Canadian Threshold
Slightly Positive
Slightly Positive isn’t exactly accurate, as the build of Thresh and player skill can move it either way. The most important part of this matchup is to not Wasteland unless it wins you the game. Their deck can win games on one land just fine. The only time Wastelanding them is acceptable is once
you’re way ahead on the board, typically in game 1 with Exploration and Loam online. Also, if you know they play Magus of the Moon, or they signal it
by running multiple basics and fetching them, trying to keep them off three lands is a valid strategy.
-2 Manabond
-1 Exploration
-1 Entomb
-1 Karakas
+2 Extirpate
The goal post-board is to have as many live topdecks as possible. Also, don’t run out two Dark Confidants ever, as Fire / Ice is a blowout. This is one
of few matchups where Explorations come out, but it’s more important to just keep hitting land drops and making a mana advantage than to come out of
the gate faster.
Zoo
Very Positive
Lands, as a deck, is designed to prey on aggro decks. This matchup hinges largely on three cards in the Zoo player’s deck: Price of Progress,
Burning-Tree Shaman, and Magus of the Moon. The first one is the only card that sees serious play, although the Shaman can show up alongside Green
Sun’s Zenith, and Magus of the Moon has popped up in some sideboards.
Zoo matches are largely dictated by the speed of their draw. Fast openers involving three creatures by turn 2 are harder to handle than openers
involving multiple Tarmogoyfs. The general strategy is the same, but faster Zoo hands dictate immediate responses. Glacial Chasm lock is difficult to
beat, but they have the ability to burn out a Lands player in their upkeep. Only running two Manabonds makes this match more difficult.
There is no sideboarding in this matchup, as Lands is pre-boarded against Zoo. Depending on what is in the Zoo deck, Krosan Grip can be included, but
this is typically only necessary against Blood Moon. The deck is absolutely cold to Magus of the Moon from Zoo, and there’s little point trying to
bring in hate, since Zoo can win the game incredibly quickly once it hits.
Merfolk
Very Positive
Merfolk is not a very interactive deck. They play some taxing counters and Force of Will, but that’s about it. Their clock is slower than Zoo’s. Game 1
is just a race to establish a board before they clock you. It’s very important to not run spells into their soft counters unless absolutely necessary.
Game 1, they have basically no out to Ensnaring Bridge besides Standstill + Spell. This is still a three-mana play that needs to be done through
Tabernacle and Rishadan Port, which is not the easiest thing in the world to do.
-2 Manabond
-1 Entomb
+2 Extirpate / +2 Krosan Grip (depending on if you fear Back to Basics)
+1 Null Rod
Post-board, Kira, Great Glass-Spinner can defeat Maze of Ith and is a major issue. Glacial Chasm lock is important but not as important, as it can be
defeated by Wasteland and graveyard removal.
Null Rod is very strong in the matchup because it shuts off all of their grave-hate and Aether Vials, but care needs to be taken in playing it to avoid
trapping yourself.
Goblins
Slightly Positive
When talking about the Goblins matchup, it’s easier to evaluate how to lose the match instead of how to win it. Typically, Goblins will play early
drops, including Goblin Lackey or Goblin Piledriver, and get in for ten or so damage. Then, Lands will find a lock piece in some capacity, either
Ensnaring Bridge or Glacial Chasm lock. At this point, Goblins needs to use Siege-Gang Commander or Goblin Sharpshooter to win the game or push through
enough damage with a Wasteland.
One of the most important things to keep in mind when playing against Goblins is to play incredibly quickly. Goblins only has a few routes to win, but
even on a locked board, Goblins has the ability to win, so games drag on longer than they should. This is by far the matchup I have drawn the most in
tournament play.
-2 Manabond
-1 Karakas
-1 Meekstone
-1 Entomb
-1 Smokestack
+1 Cursed Totem
+2 Extirpate
+2 Krosan Grip (if they have Blood Moon or Leyline of the Void)
+1 Null Rod (if they play Relic of Progenitus)
Post-board matchups become far more interesting, as Goblins can board in Blood Moon. Typically, you want to hold Krosan Grip in hand, even if an
opponent is reliant on Vial because of how easily Blood Moon can blow us out. Remember that Tabernacle or Glacial Chasm can be used for Mana to Krosan
Grip an opposing Blood Moon, which makes it easier to destroy it.
Dredge
Very Favorable
Like most matchups, the Dredge matchup depends heavily on the individual cards played by the Dredge player, in particular their Dread Return targets.
If a Dredge player is maindecking Iona, Shield of Emeria, the matchup becomes difficult, as we can be cut off of Life from the Loam. If they’re running
a Vindicate effect, the matchup is also difficult, as Ensnaring Bridge no longer saves us. However, Lands has several advantages against other decks —
Dredge has few ways of interacting with Lands and only runs around 16 total lands, making Wasteland incredibly relevant, especially in conjunction with
The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale.
The keys to this matchup are to land Bridge, which slows them down tremendously. Also, Wastelanding an early land can cut them off of draw spells.
-1 Meekstone
-1 Entomb (keep this in over K-Grip)
-1 Smokestack
-1 Zuran Orb
-1 Manabond (keep this in over K-Grip)
+2 Extirpate
+2 Krosan Grip (to deal with opposing Leylines. If you don’t see it G2, these can be brought out)
Typically Extirpate will target Dread Return, as their primary paths to victory involve recurring large monsters. We have a tremendously powerful late
game by recurring Tormod’s Crypt with Academy Ruins.
Tendrils-Based Storm
Very Unfavorable
The Storm matchup is incredibly difficult for Lands in general, as Lands does not play counterspells, nor does it have a fast clock or a way to
pressure an opponent. That isn’t to say the matchup is unwinnable, but against a skilled pilot, a tremendous amount of luck is required to win even a
single game. Typically, Lands needs to play an early Zuran Orb and put enough pressure on an opposing mana base to force them to combo off with no mana
floating.
-1 Karakas (if they aren’t playing Doomsday)
-1 Meekstone
-4 Maze of Ith
-1 Smokestack
+1 Null Rod
+2 Extirpate
Extirpate is one of the stronger cards to board in this matchup, but since so many cards in the maindeck are dead against Storm, they provide value by
disrupting the combo deck, typically by stripping either Ritual effects or Tutors.
Against red variants, the deck still has Engineered Explosives and The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale as potential answers to a Goblins rush.
When faced with a choice of what to Enlightened Tutor for, the best option is Ethersworn Canonist. This provides a reasonable clock against an
unsuspecting opponent and forces an opponent to wait a turn between finding a hate card and casting it.
In the Storm matchup, I typically mulligan any six- or seven-card hand that cannot deploy a hate-piece on turn 2.
Chalice at 1 vs. Chalice at 0
Given the option, I’ll always try to play Chalice at one, even if it means cutting off other spells in my deck. A Storm opponent can still use artifact
mana to cast an Ad Nauseam, but without one-mana rituals, the kill is far harder. Chalice at one also avoids the poor synergy between Chalice at zero
and Null Rod.
The Rock (B/G/W Junk)
Slightly Favorable
The Rock is a matchup that tends to take a long time to play out, both because their deck plays a large amount of disruption, and this is one of the
few matchups where it’s common to run into opposing Extirpate.
In game 1, your primary goal should be to answer their two relevant creatures: Knight of the Reliquary and Dark Confidant. An unopposed Dark Confidant
is incredibly difficult to answer, as The Rock will be drawing into more mana sources and Vindicates to punch through our Maze of Ith and Ensnaring
Bridge.
-2 Manabond
+2 Extirpate
Post-board, Extirpate can be played around by using Rishadan Port to tap opposing black sources, casting Life from the Loam, and then returning it via
a cycling land. However, I find this process to be tedious and ineffective and only bring it up here for the sake of completeness. My strategy to beat
Extirpate is through the use of soft-locks and alternate card-advantage engines. Maze of Ith, in conjunction with Engineered Explosives, can keep many
opposing creatures at bay. Additionally, I tend to hold off exposing Life from the Loam to Extirpate for as long as possible, ideally casting it only
for Academy Ruins, Maze of Ith, or Tolaria West, and hopefully multiples of them.
Enchantress
Slightly Unfavorable
Enchantress is a very difficult deck for Lands to defeat, as Lands does not play many cards that interact with it well. One of the few efficient ways
for Lands to defeat Enchantress in game 1 situations is through the use of Rishadan Port to curtail mana development and recurring Engineered
Explosives to beat their draw engines. Enchantress doesn’t have a good means of beating Glacial Chasm lock, which can be used to our advantage. (They
potentially have Blood Moon, Ground Seal, or Emrakul to beat it.)
-1 Smokestack
-1 Zuran Orb
-1 Karakas
-1 Meekstone
-1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale
-4 Maze of Ith
+2 Krosan Grip
NOTE: Ensnaring Bridge is kept in in this matchup despite their not running many creatures, as they have the ability to cast Emrakul. Karakas is
boarded out because they’ll just hardcast Emrakul. Smokestack is boarded out, as their engine is more efficient than ours.
The post-board matchup becomes better, as we can do a poor impression of a beatdown deck. Oblivion Stone and recurring Oblivion Stone is one of the
best ways we have of defeating Enchantress. However, care must be taken against Karmic Justice; this enchantment is their primary way of defeating
sweepers and can ruin our board position as well. Tormod’s Crypt is in the board as a way to hopefully beat Replenish.
MUD Stompy / Stax
Slightly Favorable
Like most matchups, MUD Stompy decks have several cards that can dramatically alter how the game plays out. In game 1, we essentially get to play a
game of “Land the Ensnaring Bridge.” Most versions of the deck simply don’t have an out to game 1 Ensnaring Bridge. There is one way a MUD opponent can
beat Ensnaring Bridge, however, and that is with Goblin Welder. This requires Lands to put an artifact into their graveyard, most likely a Mox Diamond
without a land in hand, or dredging back Loam. In the matchup, Loam should almost never be dredged, instead drawing cards naturally.
-2 Manabond
-1 Zuran Orb
-1 Meekstone
-1 Entomb
+2 Krosan Grip
+1 Null Rod
Post-board, Lands gains Null Rod, while MUD gets only Chalice of the Void, if they choose to bring it in. Chalice is not particularly effective at
anything besides shutting off Enlightened Tutor or countering our Mox Diamonds.
Aggro / Combo Elves
Slightly Unfavorable
Aggro and combo versions of Elves are different decks but have several common trends between them. First, The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale typically
does little to stop them. Second, they have tutorable artifact hate in the form of Viridian Shaman. Fortunately, the deck has issues beating Glacial
Chasm lock outside of hard-casting Emrakul, and this has the potential to win games.
-1 Karakas
-1 Meekstone
-1 Manabond
+1 Cursed Totem
Black / Green and Taxes
Slightly Favorable
Green and Taxes, as a deck, is positioned very well to defeat Lands. Primarily, it has many solutions to permanent-based hate, including Mangara of
Corondor, which beats any lock piece. They also play Knight of the Reliquary, Noble Hierarch, Qasali Pridemage, and potentially Jotun Grunt. In total,
this makes for a very rough matchup game 1. However, it’s possible to beat all of these cards, as their overall clock is very slow. Karakas can keep
their Karakas off the table, which is very useful. It can also lock their Mangara of Corondor from ever getting un-summoning sick.
Against Jotun Grunt, the single most important consideration is to not lose Life from the Loam. As long as you have Loam, you have the potential to
win. Once Loam is stripped from the graveyard, your chances of winning go down a lot.
-2 Manabond
-1 Entomb
+2 Extirpate
+1 Cursed Totem
This is the matchup where Cursed Totem shines the brightest. Their entire deck is comprised of creatures with activated abilities, and the Totem turns
them all into Bears.
The Mirror
50/50, of course?
The Lands Mirror is one of the most awkward and interesting mirrors in the world. The primary goal is advantage. Whichever player is capable of putting
more lands onto the battlefield will win, almost without fail.
The mirror can also be over on turn 1. In one tournament match, my opponent led with Tropical Island, Manabond, putting in two Mishra’s Factories,
Tranquil Thicket, discarding Intuition and Life from the Loam. I also had a Manabond draw, putting in a Wasteland, Rishadan Port, and a Tranquil
Thicket. If the Tranquil Thicket was any other land, I could’ve Wastelanded and Ported him off of green mana, ending the game on turn 1.
Aggressively using Engineered Explosives to keep an opponent off of their enchantments is vital, as is Wastelanding them where possible.
-4 Maze of Ith
-1 Zuran Orb
-1 Meekstone
+2 Extirpate
Post-board games become even more awkward, as both players will presumably be bringing in similar cards, namely Dark Confidant and Extirpate, while
boarding out some number of Maze of Ith. This opens up another way of running over an opponent by resolving several unanswered creatures. Ensnaring
Bridge can stay in, as an opponent may have Meloku, the Clouded Mirror or Worm Harvest. Zuran Orb needs to come out immediately, as life totals don’t
matter too much in the mirror, and more importantly, an opponent can Mindslaver you, tutor up Zuran Orb, and use it to wrath the board.
Conclusion
Lands provides a unique challenge to play, as it’s far different from any other deck in Legacy. Through the strengths of the Life from the Loam engine,
Lands has the ability to dominate many of the tribal and control decks in the format, and with Enlightened Tutor can drop game-breaking bombs.
Further Reading:
Video Deck Tech (GP Columbus) – Wizards of the Coast, featuring Eli Kassis –
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My Tournament Reports:
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