What better way to celebrate a birthday than formally updating the basic land box? Wait, don’t answer that question. It was rhetorical. VERY rhetorical.

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I’ve been on the hunt for a good full-art forest for a while and there hasn’t been anything lately. However Modern Horizons had gorgeous snow-covered lands rendered in full and that’s good enough for me! A few trees short of a forest maybe, but I’ll take it. Substituting out is the Kaladesh forest. A fine forest, but didn’t have anything particular going for it.

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I won’t lie: I was very underwhelmed by the Theros: Beyond Death lands when they were spoiled. Yuh-Gi-Oh/Pokemon, there’s no land in the land, &c &c. All true. However, once I saw them in person they were spectacular! The white mana symbol in particular looked great. Also fills a gap in the full-art slot for plains. Swapping out is a Plains from Shards. Fine plains, but also super generic. Not entirely sure if I even played Shards either.

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As mentioned earlier, Throne of Eldraine had some spectacular basic lands. So it’s time to swap out Generic Swamp for, well, at this least swamp has some hot will-o-the-wisp action. Or swamp gas. Or something.