Talk:Check land

Tainted lands

The "Tainted Lands" could also be added here, I think... Or else a new page should be created for them. There are no pages referring them in this wiki, nothing about them in any of the nonbasic lands categories. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 191.189.96.103 (talk • contribs).

I wouldn't consider them checklands. It's true that both check whether you control a certain land type, but aside from that, they play quite differently. Checklands have a triggered ability that might tap them, but you'll eventually be able to use them regardless of controlling a particular land or not. Tainted lands won't let you activate the ability for colored mana in that case, but they'll always give you colorless mana no matter what. For those reasons I don't think anybody has thought of them as checklands so far.

I'd say tainted lands are to checklands what painlands are to shocklands.

But you're right, they deserve to be mentioned, as they're one of the more famous cycles that has a name¹. I'll use this as an incentive to create a page for them right away. If you have any other ideas, feel free to create a page yourself! It's a wiki, after all. Anybody can contribute. If it doesn't quite meet the standards yet, others will adjust it to meet the policies and a proper format.

1: Wizards will probably complete this cycle for other basic land types, resulting in five cycles and fourty lands total. They might still be refered to as "tainted lands" at that point simply because the original cycle has existed for well over a decade, but in case a more general name comes up for them, it won't be a problem to rename the article when that day comes. —MudNuts (talk) 21:15, 4 September 2014 (UTC)