Celestial Colonnade was once a $100 card, and now… it isn’t.
When it comes to price, well, how the mighty have fallen.
In midrange or more controlling decks however, these are great inclusions – particularly in hard control, where you don’t want to devote slots to cards that win the game. In an all-out aggro deck, these are almost unplayable, as you can’t afford taplands with high activation costs in a list that’s looking to get them from 20 to zero as fast as possible. Verdict: The power level of these lands is extremely variable, based on the kind of deck you’re building. Unless you already have these checklands, I wouldn’t be using these to grow a Modern collection.Īllowing you to hide a win condition in your mana base, creaturelands have the steep drawback of always entering the battlefield tapped. That’s a considerable outlay, especially considering you could save that $20 to put towards shocklands down the track. However, with all of them costing around $5, a playset will set you back $20. They go in every deck, whether aggressive or controlling, and their only real downside is drawing an awkward hand with all checklands and no other lands that make these enter untapped. These are, in general terms, the overall next-best option in terms of power level after fetches and shocks. Verdict: The checklands offer a lot in terms of raw power – it’s easy to have these come into play as early as turn two. Using this table as a baseline, we’re going to evaluate the other alternatives available to the budget-conscious wizard, rating their affordability and power level as well as their respective advantages and disadvantages.Ĭhecklands are heavily reprinted, high-tier fixing that don’t ask too much of you to enter the battlefield untapped. Considering we’re looking to build entire decks that cost around that much, clearly the old fetch-plus-shock approach isn’t going to do it. The average price of a random shockland is $12, while the average fetchland costs $38 (and goes as high as $70)! Even a playset of the cheapest shockland, Hallowed Fountain, will set you back $28 – add the Flooded Strands to go with it, and that’s another $88 you’re dishing out. Here are the prices for the fetchlands and shocklands, correct at time of writing: Fetchland Instead, we’re going to discuss eleven alternatives to the expensive fetch-plus-shock approach and evaluate which one is right for you depending on your objectives.įirst of all, let’s set the bar we’re trying to get under (obviously we’re playing limbo, not doing the high jump, as we’re seeing how low we can go). There is plenty of literature on why these mana bases are so good – that’s not what we’re here to discuss (although I do like to point people to this article whenever the fetchland deck thinning argument comes up). Fetchlands and the shocklands they search up aren’t cheap, but they are the absolute best option available in the entire format – particularly when building three and four color decks. More than a few times as part of Modern on a Shoestring, we’ve talked about the biggest obstacle to anyone hoping to build a reasonably competitive deck in Modern while sticking to a budget: the mana base.
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