> Land can be devastatingly effective with cards made to take advantage of it.
One of my favorite decks is loosely based on a 5-color preconstructed deck from the Apocalypse era - it's basically almost all mana fixing, with a few cards that take advantage of multiple colors, and then four "Life/Death"s[1]
All that time you spent doing nothing but playing land-generating spells suddenly pays off when you can attack with twenty 1/1 creatures in a single turn, then declare them unblockable[2] and rinse and repeat the next turn[3].
It's even better because land-destruction spells are much rarer (and more costly), so you're impervious to Wrath-of-God[4]-eque spells.
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> Land can be devastatingly effective with cards made to take advantage of it.
One of my favorite decks is loosely based on a 5-color preconstructed deck from the Apocalypse era - it's basically almost all mana fixing, with a few cards that take advantage of multiple colors, and then four "Life/Death"s[1]
All that time you spent doing nothing but playing land-generating spells suddenly pays off when you can attack with twenty 1/1 creatures in a single turn, then declare them unblockable[2] and rinse and repeat the next turn[3].
It's even better because land-destruction spells are much rarer (and more costly), so you're impervious to Wrath-of-God[4]-eque spells.
[1]http://gatherer.wizards.com/pages/card/Details.aspx?multiver...
[2]http://gatherer.wizards.com/pages/card/Details.aspx?multiver...
[3] If, by some miracle, they had enough life to survive, that is.
[4] http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiver...