Typal land

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Kindred lands are lands associated with a subtype.

While not strictly kindred lands, Ancient Ziggurat and Hall of the Bandit Lord appear in kindred decks due to their support of creature spells in general. Underdome also is in a sense due to working with the subset of silver-bordered cards only.

Kindred mana production

5-colored creature types

These lands produce one mana of any color, which can only be used to cast spells of a certain creature type that appears roughly evenly in all colors. Many of these lands have a utility component.

A subset of these are type-agnostic; they can name a creature type upon entry and gives a mana of any color for those.

Wedge-colored subtypes

Colorless

Colorless tribes have lands that produce more colorless instead of the one mana of any color.

Kindred utility lands

Main article: Utility land

The Onslaught set introduced a 5-card cycle of utility lands. Each land taps for {C} and has an activated ability, tied to a subtype, with an activation cost that requires the color associated as well as a varying amount of generic mana.

Some additional two-colored cards are using the same mechanic, but no full cycle.

Kindred taplands

Main article: Tapland

Lorwyn block introduced an array of lands that came into the battlefield tapped unless its controller revealed a creature card of a certain creature type from hand. These lands do not follow a strict color cycle; they match the colors in which each creature type appeared.[1] Flamekin Village is not from Lorwyn block, but is from Lorwyn creatively and follows the templating.

Dungeons & Dragons: Adventures in the Forgotten Realms introduced a variant where creature cards can be revealed from hand or can be controlled on the battlefield.

This variant was used again in The Brothers' War for a single land; it was not a part of a cycle.

Factories

Notably, the two factories which support the elusive Assembly-Workers.

Other kindred lands

Some other lands care about creature types but don't fall into a broader category. In general, they produce {C}.

References

  1. Mark Rosewater (February 27, 2017). "Get Ready to Dual". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.