I think it's time that we all reconsider the
(probably false) dichotomy that it's easy to
fall into, of committing to newer cards or to
older cards. I like the original dual lands, I
like recent variants on the original dual lands.
I think these are an interesting variant of
those variants: they seem to be intended to
address the wrinkle with the M10-style dual
lands where you couldn't use them on the first
turn of the game. And I also like basic lands -
I've been gradually expanding my collection of
Unglued basic lands over the last year - so I
like lands that try to make them relevant,
though it's interesting that they still didn't
change the template from the M10-style lands to
specify basic lands. Obviously in Standard there
is no difference, but in larger formats these
can interact with Ravnica dual lands if you
choose, and it's interesting to think that there
are probably situations where each one would be
a preferable first-turn play over the other.
I think these are what people wanted the
super-checks (Tango-lands? BFZ lands. Whatever.)
to be. they're kind of the inverse of them,
kinda getting worse as you go along, but being
able to mana fix early on is always important
