It's Terramorphic Expanse. It's the same card.
Is it good? Yes. It gives decks and deckbuilders
that can't afford expensive fetchlands or duals
the opportunity to fix their mana, and it works
well with landfall, Knight of the Reliquary,
Grim Discovery, Crucible of Worlds, etc.
It's interesting to note that even as the power
level of spells has supposedly decreased (try
telling that to anyone who's ever been on the
wrong end of Cryptic Command), the power level
of lands has increased greatly. Once upon a
time, Evolving Wilds would have been considered
an amazing card, and having it in Standard
alongside the likes of Terramorphic Expanse,
Raging Ravine, and Glacial Fortress would have
been unthinkable. Maybe Wizards just doesn't
care any more, but you should take note -
Evolving Wilds is fun and effective, elegant and
appealing, synergistic and enabling. Once upon a
time is now.
Magic The Gathering Card of the day: Evolving
Wild’s
Welcome back readers, upon first seeing this
card I was flabbergasted, there is no reason to
just not reprint Terramorphic Expanse as flavor
wise it even fits perfectly in Rise of the
Eldrazi. Then it sunk in Elder Dragon
Highlander. The casual format that needs mana
fixing and is restricted to 1 terramorphic
expanse now had a second, brilliant! In standard
this card is as playable as the expanse, if
you’re running a budget deck if not the majority
of the time fetch lands are superior in every
way and bring lands into play untapped often
times a deal breaker. In extended and eternal
this card won’t see any play as you have access
to enemy and allied color fetch lands. In casual
and multiplayer this is not only a god send for
EDH decks but many players, the slow pace of
casual games allows the come into play tapped
flaw to be less severe. The mana fixing and
thinning it provides also can’t be overlooked, a
cheap price tag as well. In limited its fixing
and thins your deck so you draw bombs if your in
two or more colors choose it highly.
Today's card of the day is Evolving Wilds which
is Terramorphic Expanse with a new name and both
are still legal in standard at the time of this
review. Both are able to thin out your deck, get
a specific type of land when needed, and trigger
Landfall effects. If you are using one it may
help the deck to use the other as well and as
commons there is no major cost associated with
acquiring playsets.
For Limited this is a very useful card that
should be picked up around the time of
acceleration during Booster and included in
pretty much every Sealed deck. The most critical
aspect is getting to choose which color of mana
you have access to which may directly benefit
your next turn's play or Level Up creatures. In
addition effectively turning a forty card deck
into a thirty-nine card deck makes getting your
key cards noticeably more likely.
