We Rank Every Full-Art Basic Land | Commander Clash Podcast 136

[@willcardwell1203]

Y'all should do an episode where you share and walk us through your paper decks. Would be cool to see what brews you have!

[@PrimetimeSports20]

Yooooo!

[@blazenator44]

Even doing just the pet cards in each would be dope!

[@archangelsariel1986]

Any guesses how many decks these guys could put on a table at one time?

[@xdavid00]

yeah, flex on us!

[@thomaskurth5724]

“The flex is catastrophic” it’s my new philosophy for foiling my decks

[@ArxMega]

haha i love this.

[@japankore]

Richard is 100% correct. Mismatch your lands have all the best arts.

[@CoL_Drake]

"in my appartment in france" sounds sooo Bourgeoisie

[@brningpyre]

10:12 Wow! Props to Richard's wife, that's amazing.

[@dariocampanella7992]

Every wife is amazing.

[@CupOYerba]

The golf course plains discussion was amazing. I loved when the editor showed himself peeling the plains!

[@Windows98.]

Hey guys! Just met Seth and Crim at magic con Chicago, it was fantastic to see you guys. I got Crim to sign a forest, then Seth to sign the same forest just to add some extra salt haha

[@andyspendlove1019]

Having Crim sign a forest is actually the most Crim thing to do 😂 well played

[@Windows98.]

@@andyspendlove1019 at least it was a bolas forest

[@Wolfntee]

"Where else can you find a helicopter in magic the gathering?" *gestures towards the countless thopters*

[@bronythekight7369]

And smuggler’s copter!!

[@mandielyn0416]

I will always be a fan of the Eldraine wishing well islands. Outside of that I have several boxes full of inlimited and revised basics, if I am not using modern horizon full art snow basic, then I am using original art lands from ABUR.

[@pixelbomb97]

Speaking of these, the new full arts that they previewed for Thunder Junction where the Mana symbol is in the landscape art look sick. I may replace the basics of a couple commander decks.

[@justchica3243]

Yeah! Especially with the forest making the mana symbol out of negative space

[@_claymore]

just checked them out and damn.. they look really good. I especially like the Plains and Swamp.

[@jacksonhall2334]

Yeah those might be my new favorites of all time (theros are my previous ones).

[@mofomiko]

i saw the forest first and i liked how well blended it was, a bit of a let down how on-your-face the rest are. still sweet basics

[@CupOYerba]

The Bloomburrow seasonal lands are going to be my new favorites.

[@Esk-imo]

Glad to see Richard is man of culture and appreciates all the good full arts lmao

[@jordanlarson8310]

Thanks Richard now I want a secret lair of National Park basics...like use scenery from actual national parks. Isle Royal for the island, Everglades for the swamp, Yosemite for the mountain, Theodore Roosevelt National Park for the plains, and the Redwoods for the forest

[@Muongoing.97c]

That would actually be sick and it would help promote our national parks

[@thomasgamperfeitoza7319]

I dig Phils more “technical” analyses. Cool episode. My choice of lands is always oldest possible, white border fourth are my go to bc of price

[@Metroid23456]

This podcast inspired me to spend the last 4 hours combing through every Basic land printing in the game to make a full list of all the lands I like. Absolutely loved this episode.

[@RisottoNero-z1w]

47:32 man, how did this happen? New capenna ones are my all time favorites.

[@jhonathanmondragon7162]

They are mentally narrow to even understand abstraction. They dog people

[@aramfingal]

I love how the LOTR Plains literally says 'Mountains' on it. :D

[@VendiVidiVinci]

New capena full art lands are really beautiful, espacially the islands

[@RisottoNero-z1w]

Man, the art deco style is GORGROUS. C for them is a crime

[@AHTS_1997]

I think the only lands that flop in New Capenna are the mountains… But I otherwise agree :))

[@PHub-jw8so]

The other mountain (the wasn’t shown in the video) is super cool in my opinion

[@Eternalhachiiiiii]

I am a diehard fan of the SNC swamp with the staircases

[@RisottoNero-z1w]

@@Eternalhachiiiiii yeeeeessssss, its GORGEOUS

[@Tater8q3f]

25:00 - Richard "They don't depict the thing!" So true, totally agree. Richard spitting here. 26:28 - Richard "It looks like a tree with a guy on it" How could you say that, I will literally fight you.

[@pauldyson8098]

Unhinged will always be my favorites.

[@myleslux6983]

What I've learned from this episode is that most MTG players hate fun art styles

[@bladebro4178]

The fact that we now have enough full art basics to have a 1.5hr podcast is something i would have never guessed a few years back. Awesome

[@mezbangus3616]

How about ranking every phyrexian praetor? There are 16 of them.

[@diegoramos7494]

I second this

[@Windows98.]

I think it depends on the format, 60 card praetor is totally different

[@TheAlmightyGoiter]

All C, boom done.

[@legendarye172]

i love how the "Lost Caverns of ixalan" time slot autocorrected to "lost caverns of Italian"

[@light-chemistry]

This is peak scraping the barrel content and I’m here for it

[@andyspendlove1019]

Still don’t understand why they never made a stats episode for the last season of Commander clash

[@alvinmercado6305]

@@andyspendlove1019probably too much work and not enough viewers

[@andyspendlove1019]

@@alvinmercado6305 hard to imagine the stats episode that goes over everyone’s play patterns and habits would do worse than a basic land art tier list haha, especially with how many people were requesting the stats episode. But who knows

[@magic_claw]

I enjoyed seeing all the full art lands 😅

[@petercollins1122]

@1:28:20 Isometric is the word for the angle/style here, where the viewing angle is equally set apart from all three axis, making everything look diagonal. Very common in retro video games before full 3D became more popular.

[@VexylObby]

Looked to see if anybody else answered first. Also the art gives off impossible geometry vibes as well, which I think Phil was looking to name Escher about.

[@Beam_on_team]

There were some basics missed here. SNC has TWO sets of basics, only one was shown. The mountain in the other set is my favourite MTG land art I think

[@clelvis225]

yeah, same with Neon Dynasty...the other set had better artwork on every single land

[@jhonathanmondragon7162]

Snc nonfull art basics are also amazing

[@colbybastian17]

The new capenna plains in foil is one of the most beautiful cards I have ever seen

[@ruble2580]

41:29 Didn't see anyone else answer this on a quick scroll: They've been called the Ukiyo-e lands, for the art style they're done in. They all look amazing in foil!

[@WushuTaz]

Oh man, I'd love a basic land version of this podcast with all 5 of you. Due to the sheer amount it may need to be at least two podcasts. I really like the Unfinity planet full art foil basics which weren't shown but briefly mentioned. The Unfinity shock lands are sick too w/ the galaxy foiling.

[@swanee2846]

I learned that Phil is the only person that has good taste in lands. I kind of wish seth was here for it cause it feels like he might also like the good lands

[@cablefeed3738]

How can you say he has good taste when he likes old border? the old border is ugly.

[@swanee2846]

@@cablefeed3738 I guess you’re entitled to your own wrong opinion

[@_claymore]

Richard: "wait, why can't you mix these with real basics?" Phil: "I mean, come on, we are civilised people over here.." 33:13 - Phil always dropping the one-line bangers whenever he is on cam :D

[@samkeefer4747]

The person who taught me magic's favorite set of all time is odyssey so I only use odyssey lands, but of the full arts in recent sets the kamigawa neon dynasty are easily my favorite and I do use them for my cube I would only consider mismatching if it was part of a theme of the deck Edit: Exact lands below Plains 331 Island 335 Swamp 342 Mountain 346 Forest 347

[@dylanbaker3681]

The year of the dragon mountains are "season 2 qualifier promos" so when MH3 launches you'll be able to compete for your 1. These will be probably some of the most expensive basics ever.

[@TheAlmightyGoiter]

As New Capenna's biggest fan, I can't believe the ratings of the art directly after SNC....

[@jhonathanmondragon7162]

Guys are literally brainless. Typicsl American, see s Gothic imitation, have orgasm

[@jhonathanmondragon7162]

I'm new cspenna biggest fan btw

[@MrJakubxXx]

I love br00tal lands they are beautiful in foil, but I will never make full deck of them

[@scaredycat3146]

Usually my basics are either all the same or entirely different. Nothing in between. I don't mix border types though. I've spend like 300 bucks on just the basics for a single mono colored commander deck before. Priorities!

[@chargingbadger_]

the first three un-sets still have the best art imo.

[@TacticalOmelette]

I played at an LGS with a 60 year old guy who self admitted that he had a fetish for the oldest basics that have the first tap symbol on them (that weird T symbol), and pulled out a mono black commander deck with revised edition swamps. Cool guy honestly

[@JEDWOLFF]

Yall I've been asking for this for the past like 6 podcasts! Finally!!

[@Grimlocksmith]

I'm eagerly anticipating the hipster land podcast.

[@networkzanimex]

I 1000% agree with Phil on the new full-art land frame. The uncentered mana symbol is viscerally unsettling for some reason.

[@austinturgoose]

In my humble opinion the actual best basic cycle of all time is the Seb McKinnon Dominaria United basics. The forest, island, and plains are especially good!

[@BrewersKitchen]

Yep, if the Swamp would be available in old border (foil) I'd pay any amount necessary to use them in my Jadar deck 🥲

[@BloodMoonGo]

New Capenna art deco full arts are S Tier, with Plains #273 and Island #275 being S+ tier.

[@nickzeiders5952]

Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty and Theros Beyond Death are my favorite full art lands, I would run them in all my paper decks if I had the cards to do so.

[@whitneypanda]

I’m offended by the cats and dogs ratings, not actually but I have that deck and they make me smile every time, forest for cats mountains for dogs and playing together on the plains ❤️

[@brendans1983]

Boys, boys, boys. The 'metal lands', both the SL and the Phyrexian ones, were done by the Mark Riddick. He is to metal what Junji Ito is to manga. He is to metal what Ron Spencer is to Mtg.

[@benknock981]

theres a specific forest from ikoria that is set a night time with various small purple crystals, thats a personal favorite for non full art basics

[@burkinafaso64]

Crimson Vow are my favorite full arts. Fight me.

[@Kreenick]

Same. They look fine irl and are flavorful in my vampire and zombie decks

[@Emperor0919]

I use to do matching but even numbers of each variant, but then you'd have to put in sub-par lands, so now I'm on the Richard train, playing the best arts! Thank you for enlightening us!

[@AxillaryPower2]

When I pick basics, I try to match the plane with my commander or a plane where my deck's theme features prominently (like Mirrodin Lands for my equipment deck). Then, I like to have 3 or 4 copies of each printing (whatever fits my land count) since that's usually how I stack my lands in play.

[@hviring7441]

25:45 The SL came with 2 swamps. One was the extra card and slightly different.

[@MetaPixel7]

1:19:04 "lost caverns of Italian" lol

[@davidrubury2726]

"This really old Ixalan foil" makes me feel old

[@Wearywastrel]

Tell me about it 😓 I started collecting during tempest...

[@uandubh5087]

I think the Midnight Hunt lands actually look quite good. The Swamp is gorgeous with the light coming through the trees and the reflections on the water, I really like that one. The Plains and the Crimson Vow Plains are nice as well. It is absolutely beyond me how they can prefer the golf course plains to these 😄

[@rockyriewerts2529]

I love having every land having different art. It's the best. I look for the most beautiful art.

[@kaiokenx100]

I wish Crim did a call in for the Amonkhet/Hour of Devastation lands to defend them because those are S tier.

[@MonkPain]

Yes Richard the pixel lands are peak, thank you!

[@raccoonhatcity7627]

We needed crim here.

[@jordan853]

This was great! You guys should do an Atog tier list next, there's 12 of them and they're all S-tier staples.

[@TheTexasDice]

One of my favorite basic lands are the Lorwyn swamps. One of them is very green, with beautiful flowers. I have that one in foil, love it.

[@CupOYerba]

If you read the original Dracula novel, all of the arts depict scenes from the book VERY well. They don’t look like Plains or Swamps, but the attention to detail regarding the book is amazing.

[@avelchong]

Why did you skip the Outer Planet versions of Unfinity?

[@MakeVarahHappen]

You guys should post the blank version of your tier list so people can make their own.

[@albertpnc]

Interesting opinion on the unstable lands, Phil. I wasn't a huge fan of them for a long long time but once I put them into deck lists, fetching for them made me fall in love. So so easy to find and if you have 2 or 3 of them all together then it's even more 🥰🥰🥰 I can only imagine how dope they are in foil 😭

[@matiasc003]

I'm with Phil, the basics from invasion, onslaught, mercadian masques. The retro foil with the falling star is supreme.

[@danielfawcett3991]

The GOAT swamp is SNC 276

[@eulefranz944]

Richard and I basically like the same lands.

[@iiGiacomo]

Fully agree with Richard on the original Ixalan basics. SERIOUSLY underrated. Same with Ikoria and Throne of Eldraine for me as well.

[@lonelostwolf0]

Richard and I dont usually share the same views on MTG, but he got my back on those Pixel lands. The only time I've ever bought basic land Secret Lairs was both sets.

[@TheBadstar4]

I wish you guys talked about the new lands coming out with the symbols disguised in the backround. I think they're going to be new favorites for a lot of people.

[@Spotifist]

Agreed with Phil 9/10 times, what a lad. Thanks for the video!

[@ullrich]

Also, in my opinion, the oil slick lands are amazing in person. They are definitely dark, but I love the texture. But I get the sense that there are many areas in which we do not align in terms of our tastes haha.

[@sriley4458]

The mana is coming from the stars in the constellation I guess for the Theros lands, kinda fits

[@brianpraamsma2607]

I really hope you guys end up doing a full deep dive into favorite hipster lands.

[@CrowQQ]

What a coincidence. I literally put out a notice to my playgroup that I'm collecting basic mountains from each set very recently and will accept donations or just buy them .

[@rdm5687]

11:42 Man, "catastrophic flex" apart, these are absolute gorgeous. Such a unique texture, almost like a painting VS other more "posterish" ¿?

[@akihitokoizumi2474]

Richard, you are now obligated to do a non full art basic land ranking now. I look forward to the 3 hour stream!

[@Arcadious10]

The LCI lands are sweet! The plains is Machu Picchu! Yes the Swamp is too blue. Send me all the Plains and Forests (pray)

[@RisottoNero-z1w]

Plains being a incredibly high village on top of a mountain that before roads and trains took 3 days walking upwards to reach dazzles me

[@TheSLATEcleaner]

Richard knows how to live with the all unique. Don't like foil because of curling though. Tierlist for basics is white border Salvat-Hachette lands [i.e. the lands with the pegasus set symbol, the Anthony S Waters Forest art reprint from Urza's Saga that's Italian-specific is the single best basic ever printed] > the best of the land program lands [Eggleton PALP #7 Meoto Iwa Island, MacNeil PALP #9 Uluru Plains, Ploog PLEP #11 Nottingham Forest Forest, Spears PALP #10 Japan Swamp, Guay PALP #8 Taroko National Park Mountain] > best non-specialty old border lands [Ice Age non-snow Mountains, Anthony S Waters Urza's Saga Forests, Rob Alexander Urza's Saga Panorama Plains, Portal 1 White Tree Swamp/Portal 2 Bones Swamp, Giancola Urza's Saga Islands]>Best Full Art Basics [Evan Cagle Island and Daria Khlebnikova Mountain from Midnight Hunt in the Lithography-esque style which look nuts especially in foil, Tomohito Ukiyo-E Castle Plains from Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty, the Seb McKinnon Secret Lair Swamps or Adam Paquette #237 on-planet Swamp from Unfinity/Shie Nanahara Red Lantern Ukiyo-e Swamp from Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty, Piotr Dura's Brother's War Forest] > Ice Age and after old border lands > other full arts > white border lands in general > good Modern border lands > OG basics > else

[@lewkycharmes]

I am happy to say that I agree with Richard on almost every land, pixel lands for sure.

[@GoDzJtFr]

I'm with you Richard, the Ixalan travel poster lands are top tier

[@0331ball]

Tome: no S tier. Phil: no S tier. Richard: 8 S tier

[@tomerabramovici32]

I gave a mountain an S. But really my S tiers are old border basics, stuff like urza's saga.

[@0331ball]

Lol I posted this comment with like 5 minutes left in the video and as soon as I hit send you dropped the S

[@kylegonewild]

Card is mostly black with red tinting and the art is still traditional art lol. Both Kamigawa Ukiyo-e Swamps are great. The darker ones *really* evoke the mood of black mana.

[@izaiahsundquist6877]

Now I want to see you go through and rate all of the non-full art basics.

[@TrippyChippy]

44:50 I didn’t even realize the “HIWTYL” commander deck came with a bonus Mountain. It came with the Island but apparently the Mountain was missing in mine. That sucks😢

[@andrewkelley6039]

The disrespect for the Brothers Wars lands was unreal. In foil they are so insane

[@nomeacuerdo]

A bonus ranking for the full text lands was expected.

[@andyony2]

Summary of the episode: Richard really likes Full Art Lands 😁😁😁

[@cerealforserious]

Richard: throws a game bc he didn't top deck his hour of devastation plains and his farewell wouldn't have been lore accurate

[@tobypiva4306]

people have been complaining about lands not showing the thing they're meant to depict longer than lands were only showing the thing they're meant to be.

[@seanfallon2271]

Re: the Heads I Win, Tails You Lose lands, not only was it was it a bonus land (the rest of the lands were regular Battlebond basics), you only got ONE of those two, so not only did WOTC take over a year to get it to buyers, you didn't even get both of the unique full art lands for buying the $100 first secret lair commander deck.

[@xEddyTheGr8x]

Mismatching for me is only ever gonna be a thing in mono colored decks. If every basic is the same anyway, I will most definitely get all the sweet artworks in there. But if I'm in multicolor & have different kinda of bascis, they are all the same. Usually some full art, but I do have a few sets of old bordered lands that match, so they are in some decks as well.

[@FantasticSanchu]

Gotta defend my boy Crim here on the Midnight Hunt/Crimson Vow full art basics. Yeah, they can be hard to distinguish from across the board, although I'll say the colored frame has helped in my experience playing with and against them. Plus, the art looks sick, especially the ones Dan Mumford drew! That old school ADTR album cover art will always bring a smile to my face.

[@goldbergbrain]

For full art, I love the Unstable lands. For reg. size, I play whatever is on theme. In my 5-color deck, I run the Bob Ross lands because WotC was nice enough to mess up my order and sent me two boxes instead of 1.

[@ullrich]

I love all the different basics and full art basics available. I collect them all, or at least as much as I can afford (cough, judge promos, cough) and I try to get some of the old border foils when I can. There are also a number of nice regular lands for LOTR that look great as well. I also love the panorama lands from Scars of Mirrodin, Worldwake, and (I think) Champions of Kamigawa. There are some other mini-panoramas in Lorwyn and Shadowmoor that I'd love to get, but some of the foils are pretty pricey. But yea, sometimes they fall short with the full arts, and sometimes the regular lands have gems. It kind of sucks that we get like, 2 new full art lands with each new set, but I still love the new art and variety. And sometimes you get some that are really special and have value. I think the whole idea for them is to create a variety of lands that can help people with all sorts of different tastes bling out their decks.

[@ullrich]

TOMER! I, too, love the OG John Avon lands so much that I have signed limited edition prints! Well, just the swamp, but still! I agree I spent way too damn much, but I love the art so much, and I love all of John Avon's work so much that it's worth it to me!

[@Patris-corde]

I'm with Richard and seth on this. Too many cool lands to play, gotta fit as many as you can in a deck.

[@ryantomczak2248]

I have a dragon shield box for each of the basic land types. They are a large mismatch of lands from a multitude of sets. Full art, regular, even white border. Whenever I need lands for a deck I just grab however many I need, not paying attention to art or frame or style at all.

[@blue9393]

Freaking loved the black and white innistrad lands. I have a spirit deck that’s all those lands. They are gorgeous

[@inkarozu2309]

For me #1 is the Unfinity Planets. #2 Theros symbols. #3 Dominaria stained glass symbols. #4 Thunder Junction symbols in landscape. #5 Kamigawa Neon Dynasty Japanese #6 Phyrexian Oil Slick. #7 Dracula Secret Lair #8 Brutal Basic Secret Lair (swamp only) #9 Brother's War Mechs. Edit for Richard: Yes I do missmatch, but in pairs. In multicolor I run the same number of basics for each color, each different art but all paired in their set (ie 3 different color theros, 3 different color dominaria, etc).

[@jhonathanmondragon7162]

Missing snc

[@gfinc1601]

The phyrexian plains in foil is unreal! i can see how they are very different from traditional basics though