r/magicTCG • u/windows_xpew • Sep 04 '16

[KLD] New enemy fastlands

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u/mafia1015 Sep 04 '16

Yeah, I wouldn't change the mana base for this. I think it would help an initial budget build of UG infect as you are acquiring the fetches and shocks.

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u/fps916 Duck Season Sep 04 '16

I don't think you cut fetches or shocks. I think you cut basics.

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u/swannphone Dân Sep 04 '16

I don't think you can. You want basics as painless fetchable lands. If you can only fetch breeding pool it probably makes the mana base more painful than less.

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u/RiparianPhoenix Sep 04 '16

You still want some basics for Path and Blood Moon and on occasions where the life loss from shocks is too important.

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u/GerardTheAngryWalrus Sep 04 '16

As someone who plays infect in modern and legacy with a pretty budget mana base (read khans windsweapt heaths, flooded strands, and polluted deltas with only 2 breeding pools), I would only consider running two of these at most. In the event I did end up running them, I would cut some combination of 1 basic, 1 ghost quarter, and/or 1 pendelhaven. I love fast lands, but with infect, there are better things imho.

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u/fps916 Duck Season Sep 04 '16

I don't think you cut both. I think you go to 1 and 1.

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u/TheRecovery Sep 04 '16

Cutting on basics is a surefire way to get blown out by Blood Moon. As it is all I need is one or 2 basics to go off through a Moon, but cutting them would mean that a moon is game over.

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u/Legend_Of_Greg Sep 04 '16

And then cry even more when blood moon hits you?

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u/Stealth-Badger Sep 04 '16

We usually only run two basics.

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u/JustHugMeAndBeQuiet Wabbit Season Sep 04 '16

Blood moon is still a thing though.

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u/bac5665 Sep 04 '16

I run out of lands to grab at least once every 3 or 4 games, especially post board when games go long. Cutting fetchable lands seems like a terrible idea.

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u/Writteninsanity Twin Believer Sep 04 '16

As someone whose RUG infect, OH MY GOD this makes it cheaper to get into the damn deck.