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The '''Land''' deck, usually just called '''XX Lands''', where XX is the number of lands in the deck, is a deck focused around that card type.
'''UPDATED MARCH/2022'''


The deck uses <c>Exploration</c> and <c>Manabond</c> to put a large quantity of lands with various effects into play consistently and is able to reuse discarded or destroyed lands with <c>Life from the Loam</c> and <c>Crucible of Worlds</c>. <c>Intuition</c> and <c>Gamble</c>, are easy [[tutor]]s for the deck as it is generally graveyard based and can profit off the downsides of these tutors.
'''Lands''' is a control deck present in the [[Legacy]] format. It receives its name for the abundancy of lands compared to msot decks.


There are a large variety of lands used in the deck. They may draw cards (<c>Tranquil Thicket</c>, <c>Horizon Canopy</c>), keep the opponent off his or her mana (<c>Wasteland</c>, <c>Rishadan Port</c>), or otherwise disrupt the opponent's game plan (<c>Glacial Chasm</c>, <c>Barbarian Ring</c>, <c>Maze of Ith</c>, <c>The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale</c>). Others provide support (<c>Maze of Ith</c>, <c>Academy Ruins</c>). The win condition is usually a [[manland]] such as <c>Mishra's Factory</c>, <c>Creeping Tar Pit</c>, or <c>Nantuko Monastery</c>. The deck generally runs a fair amount of artifacts, as <c>Academy Ruins</c> is a very powerful engine in the deck. Recently, decklists have avoided red, often running an <c>Enlightened Tutor</c> toolbox.
==Overview==
Lands is known for being one of the strongest strategies in the Legacy format.
 
The deck is strong against most opponents and its strategy makes it hard for opponents to deal with.
 
The strategy can win through combo, a kind of burn strategy or via recursing Punishing Fire.
 
== Early Decklists==
Sometimes it was called '''XX Lands''', where XX was the number of lands in the deck.
 
The deck used <c>Exploration</c> and <c>Manabond</c> to put a large quantity of lands with various effects into play consistently and was able to reuse discarded or destroyed lands with <c>Life from the Loam</c> and <c>Crucible of Worlds</c>.
 
<c>Intuition</c> and <c>Gamble</c>, were [[tutor]]s included in the deck. And the Graveyard-recursion mitigated the downside of those cards.


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1 Ray of Revelation
1 Ray of Revelation
1 Firebolt</d>
1 Firebolt</d>
==Contemporary Decklists==
<d title="2nd Place: Lands - Hori Masataka - Emperor of Legacy, Hareruya (Japan) - 06/02/22">
Lands
1 Blast Zone
1 Bojuka Bog
3 Dark Depths
1 Field of the Dead
1 Forest
1 Ghost Quarter
1 Glacial Chasm
4 Grove of the Burnwillows
1 Karakas
3 Maze of Ith
2 Rishadan Port
2 Taiga
1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale
4 Thespian's Stage
1 Urza's Saga
1 Verdant Catacombs
4 Wasteland
1 Windswept Heath
1 Wooded Foothills
Creatures
2 Elvish Reclaimer
Instants and sorceries
4 Crop Rotation
4 Life from the Loam
3 Punishing Fire
Other spells
4 Exploration
4 Mox Diamond
3 Sylvan Library
3 Valakut Exploration
Sideboard
4 Endurance
3 Force of Vigor
2 Pyroblast
1 Red Elemental Blast
3 Sphere of Resistance
2 Surgical Extraction
</d>
==See also==
* [[Land]]
* [[Control deck|Control]]
* [[Prison deck|Prison]]
* [[Combo deck|Combo]]
* [[Legacy]]
* [[Vintage]]
* [[Modern]]
* [[Reserved List]]
* [[Revitalization of Legacy]]


[[Category:Tournament decks]]
[[Category:Tournament decks]]
[[Category:Legacy format]]
[[Category:Deck archetypes]]

Revision as of 20:23, 8 March 2022

UPDATED MARCH/2022

Lands is a control deck present in the Legacy format. It receives its name for the abundancy of lands compared to msot decks.

Overview

Lands is known for being one of the strongest strategies in the Legacy format.

The deck is strong against most opponents and its strategy makes it hard for opponents to deal with.

The strategy can win through combo, a kind of burn strategy or via recursing Punishing Fire.

Early Decklists

Sometimes it was called XX Lands, where XX was the number of lands in the deck.

The deck used Exploration and Manabond to put a large quantity of lands with various effects into play consistently and was able to reuse discarded or destroyed lands with Life from the Loam and Crucible of Worlds.

Intuition and Gamble, were tutors included in the deck. And the Graveyard-recursion mitigated the downside of those cards.

38 Land - James Palaima - StarCityGames Legacy Open 5k January 2010

Contemporary Decklists

2nd Place: Lands - Hori Masataka - Emperor of Legacy, Hareruya (Japan) - 06/02/22

See also