What Is a Fetch Land?Ī fetch land is a nonbasic land that you can pay one life and sacrifice to search your library for a particular basic land type and put it into play. We’ve talked about shock lands before, and now it’s time to talk about another useful way to smooth out your mana. One of the most powerful ways to do this is with fetch lands. Finding a good balance of lands is crucial to any deck. Sometimes you get too few (mana screw) and sometimes you get too many (mana flood). To this day, I’ve never met an MTG player who’s never gotten screwed by a bad land draw. Verdant Catacombs | Illustration by Alayna Danner Fetchland Reprints Program (FRP) might as well be.They will be willing to pay exorbitant amounts of money for these cards regardless of how many get reprinted. But Commander players only need one of each fetchland. Commander has slowly displaced Standard as the most popular format, or so we believe. The answer to both questions above, unless the player population decreases, is that the $40 floor for the most sought-after fetchlands will remain. The $40 floor for the most sought-after fetchlands will remain.Įven if in a post-COVID scenario we can all go on vacation and spend less money on Magic, that will mean that less of Modern Horizons 2 will be printed, and even in that scenario, the $40 floor for the most sought-after fetchlands will remain. Wizards might as well be printing money every time they reprint fetchlands.Ģ. I think there is a large number of potential players wanting to enter the Modern format, and that is why I believe that:ġ. The only way for this floor to go lower is for the Modern player population to go down despite the availability of fetchlands, and I don't think that will happen. Because of how long it has taken the company to reprint the fetchlands (since either Khans of Tarkir or Modern Masters 2017), many players who wanted to play Modern at near-competitive or competitive levels have not been able to afford to do so. I believe that Wizards has decided to keep the floor for the most sought-after fetchlands at $40, and that this floor will not go below $40. Will the reprinting of fetchlands in Modern Horizons 2, next year, lower the price of the fetchlands, and to what level? Will the reprinting of fetchlands as Zendikar III expeditions lower the price of the fetchlands, and to what level?Ģ. The questions that need to be answered are:ġ. Wizards has announced that the ten fetchlands will be in the Modern Horizons 2 set as regular booster cards. Therefore, when we talk about fetchlands, we are talking about Modern price gate-keeping. Historic (Arena-only format Ixalan forward), and Standard also do not care about fetchlands. Pioneer does not care about fetchlands.Ĥ. Pioneer, which begins with Return to Ravnica, and in which the five allied fetchlands from Khans of Tarkir are banned. I don't think it's debatable that Modern has endured a decline as the fetchlands have increased in price.ģ. In Modern, the fetchlands rule the format, and are the main barrier to entry. Modern, which does not have access to the original dual lands. These 'boutique' formats are played with proxies, or played with original dual lands by players who either bought these cards before they became uber-expensive, or spent ungodly amounts of money on cardboard.Ģ. Vintage and Legacy, pretty much dead formats. The enemy fetchlands have been additionally reprinted in Modern Masters 2017.ġ. The ten fetchlands have been reprinted as expeditions for Battle for Zendikar (or Zendikar II) and Zendikar Rising (or Zendikar III). These ten lands are the targets for reprinting in specialty products. The supply of allied fetchlands is larger than the supply of enemy fetchlands, at least judging by how often they have been printed in Standard, and that the Khans of Tarkir printing was for the much larger, post Return to Ravnica player population.Īfter the Khans of Tarkir allied fetchland printing, the ten fetchlands have become the greatest source of reprint equity for Wizards. These have been the three instances when fetchlands have been in Standard. The second cycle of fetchlands, in enemy colors, were printed in Zendikar. The first cycle of fetchlands, in allied colors, were printed in Onslaught, and reprinted in Khans of Tarkir. Therefore, the fetchlands are the best dual lands that Wizards can print for as long as the company abides by the Reserved List. Enter the Reserved List, and Wizards does not reprint the original duals. The fetchlands come in, are sacrificed for 1 life, and fetch basic lands. The next best dual lands in Magic are the fetchlands.
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